# "y :attr x" or "x :attr y"
**URL:** https://forum.datomic.com/t/y-attr-x-or-x-attr-y/918
**Category:** General
**Created:** [April 9, 2019, 1:03am UTC](https://forum.datomic.com/t/y-attr-x-or-x-attr-y/918 "2019-04-09T01:03:52Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@blake](https://forum.datomic.com/u/blake)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2019, 1:03am UTC](https://forum.datomic.com/t/y-attr-x-or-x-attr-y/918/1 "2019-04-09T01:03:52Z")
I’ve designed my entity so that it has a many-ref relationship field, so Bob would have “employs Frank”, “eats-at Joe’s”, “bowls-with Jeff”, and since these are all under Bob, I made a query so that Joe could ask “Who eats at my place?”
```
[:find [?client ...] :in $ ?provider
:where [?rel-id :relationship/party ?provider]
[?client :user/relationships ?rel-id]]
```
which, great. But I also want to be able to ask “Who has any relationship to Bob?”
```
Bob [whatever] who?
who? [whatever] Bob
```
Not an “and” but an “or”.
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### Author:  [@dustingetz](https://forum.datomic.com/u/dustingetz)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2019, 12:27pm UTC](https://forum.datomic.com/t/y-attr-x-or-x-attr-y/918/2 "2019-04-09T12:27:42Z")
Not sure but you may need to enumerate the relationships you want to check in an or-join
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### Author:  [@dustingetz](https://forum.datomic.com/u/dustingetz)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2019, 1:30pm UTC](https://forum.datomic.com/t/y-attr-x-or-x-attr-y/918/3 "2019-04-09T13:30:48Z")
This works:
```auto
[:find
(pull ?e [*])
:where
; :community/name starts-with? "A", or
; :neighborhood/name starts-with? "A"
[(ground #{:community/name
:neighborhood/name}) [?a ...]]
[?e ?a ?name]
[(clojure.string/starts-with? ?name "A")]]
```
[http://demo.hyperfiddle.net/:dustingetz!datomic-query-any-attr/](http://demo.hyperfiddle.net/:dustingetz!datomic-query-any-attr/)