Named Bindings
Explore how to use named bindings in Ecto to manage complex database queries in Elixir. Understand the benefits of assigning meaningful names to query bindings to improve readability, avoid errors, and simplify handling multiple table joins in large query compositions.
We'll cover the following...
We'll cover the following...
Work with named bindings
Keeping track of the query bindings isn’t too difficult with a small query like those we’ve used previously. The query composition spanned a small section of code and we only had two bindings. With a more complex query spread over a wider area, though, it could be tough to remember which binding needs to go where.
To help alleviate this problem, Ecto allows us to assign specific names to bindings that it saves throughout the query’s ...