Projects

How to get all the project issues? Given a JIRA project, there is not a straightforward way to get all its issues by using the JIRA Java API: there is not a Java method on the project object to get all its issues. The only way to get the project issues via API is by performing a JQL similar to:

project = SSP

SQL for JIRA is pure and strict wrap of the JIRA API: it follows the same pattern and it has the same constraints than the API. Therefore there is no way to get all the JIRA issues at once by using SQL as well as there is no way to achieve it by using JQL!.

If you try the SQL query below a full scan exception will be raised:

select * from projects p inner join issues i on p.id=i.projectid

It he query above would be allowed, it would fetch all the issues from JIRA. This would work fine with small JIRA instances but it would probably crash large instances with lot of thousands issues.

This constraint makes SQL for JIRA ready for the masses as it cares of the JIRA users' mistakes aborting inefficient queries.

Even if you restrict the project to a single one:

select * from projects p inner join issues i on p.id=i.projectid where p.name='SSP'

It still will raise a full scan exception because according to JIRA API pattern, the right way would be use a JQL for that:

select * from issues where JQL='project = SSP'

As you see, SQL for JIRA respects the same constraints than JIRA in order to avoid to compromise the JIRA performance and by keeping the same good balance among features and performance.