Lazy Loading vs Eager Loading

Question

Lazy loading in Entity Framework is the default phenomenon that happens for loading and accessing the related entities. However, eager loading is referred to the practice of

Answer 1

It is better to use eager loading when it is possible, because it optimizes the performance of your application.

ex-:

Eager loading

var customers= _context.customers.Include(c=> c.membershipType).Tolist();

lazy loading

In model customer has to define

Public virtual string membershipType {get; set;}

So when querying lazy loading is much slower loading all the reference objects, but eager loading query and select only the object which are relevant.