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If I have a profile form with 20 fields a user can update on a page. It seems like it would be a waste to run an update statement that would update every single column if the user only changed two fields.
I was wondering what would be the best way to handle this for the best performance.
Since I only have 20 fields its not really an issue but I am just wondering for future development of where maybe it could be more.
What does everyone else do, do you just update every column for that row?
Tools like Entity Framework (or other ORM tools) will handle this for you, for “free”.
They track what has changed in your objects, and they will issue a tailor-made
UPDATEstatement that will only update those columns that have actually changed.You need not worry about any of those details anymore. All taken care of for you. Try it!
Resources:
Entity Framework in the MSDN Data Developer Center – tons of docs, whitepapers, code samples, videos and more
Absolute Beginner’s Guide to Entity Framework
MSDN Library – Entity Framework Overview (.NET 4)
ASP.NET site – Entity Framework with lots of tutorials on how to use EF with ASP.NET (Webforms and MVC) applications