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                    CRUD: Reading and Writing Data
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                    Query
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                    Associations
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                    Advanced Usage
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                    Raw SQL & SQL Builder
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                    Composite Primary Key
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<h2 id="error-handling">Error Handling</h2>
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<p>After perform any operations, if there are any error happened, GORM will set it to <code>*DB</code>'s <code>Error</code> field</p>
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<pre><code class="lang-go"><span class="hljs-keyword">if</span> err := db.Where(<span class="hljs-string">"name = ?"</span>, <span class="hljs-string">"jinzhu"</span>).First(&user).Error; err != <span class="hljs-literal">nil</span> {
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<span class="hljs-keyword">if</span> db.Model(&user).Related(&credit_card).RecordNotFound() {
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<h2 id="transactions">Transactions</h2>
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<p>To perform a set of operations within a transaction, the general flow is as below.</p>
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<pre><code class="lang-go"><span class="hljs-comment">// begin a transaction</span>
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<h3 id="a-specific-example">A Specific Example</h3>
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<pre><code class="lang-go"><span class="hljs-keyword">func</span> CreateAnimals(db *gorm.DB) err {
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<h4 id="run-raw-sql">Run Raw SQL</h4>
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<p>Run Raw SQL</p>
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<pre><code class="lang-go">db.Exec(<span class="hljs-string">"DROP TABLE users;"</span>)
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db.Exec(<span class="hljs-string">"UPDATE orders SET shipped_at=? WHERE id IN (?)"</span>, time.Now, []<span class="hljs-keyword">int64</span>{<span class="hljs-number">11</span>,<span class="hljs-number">22</span>,<span class="hljs-number">33</span>})
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<h4 id="sqlrow--sqlrows">sql.Row & sql.Rows</h4>
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<p>Get query result as <code>*sql.Row</code> or <code>*sql.Rows</code></p>
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<h4 id="scan-sqlrows-in-iteration">Scan sql.Rows In Iteration</h4>
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<pre><code class="lang-go">rows, err := db.Model(&User{}).Where(<span class="hljs-string">"name = ?"</span>, <span class="hljs-string">"jinzhu"</span>).Select(<span class="hljs-string">"name, age, email"</span>).Rows() <span class="hljs-comment">// (*sql.Rows, error)</span>
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<h2 id="generic-database-interface-sqldb">Generic database interface sql.DB</h2>
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<p>Get generic database interface <a href="http://golang.org/pkg/database/sql/#DB" target="_blank">*sql.DB</a> from <code>*gorm.DB</code> connection</p>
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db.DB()
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<h4 id="connection-pool">Connection Pool</h4>
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<h2 id="composite-primary-key">Composite Primary Key</h2>
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<p>Set multiple fields as primary key to enable composite primary key</p>
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<pre><code class="lang-go"><span class="hljs-keyword">type</span> Product <span class="hljs-keyword">struct</span> {
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<h2 id="logger">Logger</h2>
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<p>Gorm has built-in logger support, by default, it will print happened errors</p>
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<pre><code class="lang-go"><span class="hljs-comment">// Enable Logger, show detailed log</span>
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<span class="hljs-comment">// Diable Logger, don't show any log</span>
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<span class="hljs-comment">// Debug a single operation, show detailed log for this operation</span>
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<h4 id="customize-logger">Customize Logger</h4>
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<p>Refer GORM's default logger for how to customize it <a href="https://github.com/jinzhu/gorm/blob/master/logger.go" target="_blank">https://github.com/jinzhu/gorm/blob/master/logger.go</a></p>
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