[Dbix-class] select * from questions

[Matt S Trout]

Aran Deltac wrote:
> On 4/27/2006, "Gavin Carr" <gavin at openfusion.com.au> wrote:
>> 3. For situations where you have queries that aren't supported by DBIC yet,
>> is there a way to source the underlying Schema dbh for doing statement
>> handles directly, or this not kosher? There's nothing obvious in
>> DBIx::Class::Schema or DBIx::Class::Storage::DBI.
> 
> Thats not kosher, since DBIC _should_ handle all situations (although
> there are admitedly a few things it can't do, for now).  So, in those
> rare cases, you can get at it with you storage object.  Such as
> $obj->result_source->storage->dbh();

But come bitch on here first, there's almost always a better way than grabbing 
the dbh yourself - even if you have to use some literal SQL chunks you'll get 
more help from DBIC if you let it still control at least part of the query :)

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