The simplest way to fetch data from your database is to use a fetch request. The managed object context forwards fetch requests to the persistent store coordinator. The persistent store coordinator will then forward the request to the persistent store, which will then convert the request to a SQLite query. Once the results are fetched, they are passed back up this chain and converted to NSManagedObject instances.
By default, these objects are called faults. When an object is a fault, it means that the actual properties and values for the object are not fetched yet, but they will be fetched once you access them. This is an example of a good implementation of lazy variables because fetching the values ...
