Question

Thanks all for the help

Hi All,

public static List<Order> LoadAll()  
{
    // Load all orders in the table. If too
    // many records, consider exposing this 
    // operation as a plain ADO.NET function.
}

What would the “plain ADO.NET function” look like if there were too many records?

Thanks,
rod.

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Answer 1

He probably means streaming the data from the database via a DbDataReader object rather than loading all of the records into an in-memory List<T>. You could implement that as an IEnumerable<T> and yield return objects based upon the current data record.