I think the Zend Db examples should be more SQL centered

[remy-tiitre]

And what I mean by that is people will have problems like how to issue "SELECT field FROM table WHETE field > value" commands via Zend_Db. They don't have any idea about the object names and relations when they start to use ZF2.

I had the same issue, wondering if I should use $adapter->query() or $sql->select() etc. And thats when I had spend many hours reading docs, watching webinars etc.

When I came to conclusion that $sql->select|insert|update|delete is the most logic route for DML and $adapter is the only way to do Store procedures I still pumped to some problems Zend Db 2.0 has right now. For example its not possible to issue WHERE field < SYSDATE() via $sql->select object. (Recent update in github might have fixed that predicate inside predicate problem, haven't tested yet).

But all that trouble that I have had finding a solution how to do simple everyday queries lead me to a thought that there really should be examples from SQL perspective not Zend Db object perspective.

Just an idea what I mean by examples from SQL perspective:
SELECT * FROM table;

SELECT field1, field2 FROM table WHERE field3 = 'some value' ORDER BY field2 DESC, field2 ASC;

SELECT t1., t2. FROM table1 AS t1 INNER JOIN table2 AS t2 ON t1.id = t2.id;

SELECT COUNT(*) AS total, CONCAT(field1, ' ', field2) AS fields FROM table WHERE field1 > NOW() GROUP BY field3 DESC HAVING field3 IS NOT NULL;

SELECT * FROM table LIMIT 5,10;

CALL someStoreProc(@someParam);

If there would be best practice examples for these queries it would be easy to modify and tweak them so that they would solve most of every day use cases.