Question

This what i found in dapper blog

var sql = 
@"
select * from Customers where CustomerId = @id
select * from Orders where CustomerId = @id
select * from Returns where CustomerId = @id";

using (var multi = connection.QueryMultiple(sql, new {id=selectedId}))
{
   var customer = multi.Read<Customer>().Single();      
   var returns = multi.Read<Return>().ToList();
   var orders = multi.Read<Order>().ToList();
   ...
} 

My requirement is I want to directly read only “orders” . Can I do that ?

Answer 1

If you don’t want the other two, you can call Read without ever iterating that sequence: no objects will be materialized:

var customer = multi.Read<Customer>(); // not consumed
var returns = multi.Read<Return>(); // not consumed
var orders = multi.Read<Order>().ToList();