In this chapter, I will cover how to call stored procedures using Entity Framework Core 5. I will show how to call both a stored procedure that returns results and one that inserts a record. I will also show how you can pass parameters to stored procedures. Some examples of where it makes sense to use a stored procedure instead of directly using Entity Framework Core are when you have to do complex queries for reporting or when performing bulk data operations.
Add Stored Procedures to a Database
We first need to add our stored procedures to the database. To make this simple, I will be creating ...
