After translated to SQL, in LINQ to Entities, sequence queries returning IQueryable<T> implements deferred execution too.

Besides LINQ to Entities queries, EF/Core also provides rich APIs for data changes, with imperative paradigm.

The previous part demonstrated what are the SQL translations of the LINQ to Entities queries. This part discusses how the translation is implemented. Regarding different database systems can have diff

This part discusses how to query SQL database with the defined mapping entities. In EF/Core, LINQ to Entities supports most of the methods provided by Queryable:

EF version of this i

.NET and SQL database and have 2 different data type systems. For example, .NET has System.Int64 and System.String, while SQL database has bigint and nvarchar; .NET has sequences and objects, while SQ

The previous chapters discussed LINQ to Objects, LINQ to XML (objects), and Parallel LINQ (to Objects). All of these LINQ technologies query local in-memory objects managed by .NET. This chapter discu

C# 8.0 introduces index and range for array. This part discussed the index and range types, syntax, compilation, and how to apply them with LINQ for any type that implements IEnumerable<T>.