Beginning Entity Framework Core 2.0: Database Access from .NET

© Derek J. Rouleau 2018

Derek J. RouleauBeginning Entity Framework Core 2.0https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3375-7_3

3. Stepping Beyond the Basics

Derek J. Rouleau¹ 

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East Baldwin, Maine, USA

 

I think it’s safe to say by this point that you are pretty comfortable with adding, retrieving, updating, and deleting records from a database using Entity Framework Core 2.0. Now it’s time to do something that’s a bit more exciting and slightly more difficult. We’ll start off by selecting only the columns we want in our query, as we generally don’t need every value in a table. In the example here, this might not seem like a big deal, but if you are working with a table that has 15+ columns and millions of rows, you can start to see why only getting the ...