Question

I have a customer table filled with customer detail and I would like to count all the records in that table and return how many records exist in the table for each name.

So if I have two customers with name Erik, and three records with name Roberts. The function would return two Eriks and three Robers.

Answer 1

How about this?

Customers.GroupBy(x => x.Name)
    .Select(x => new { Name = x.Key, Count = x.Count() })