How to COUNT rows within EntityFramework without loading contents?

Question

I\'m trying to determine how to count the matching rows on a table using the EntityFramework.

The problem is that each row might have many

Answer 1

This is my code:

IQueryable records = db.AuctionRecord;
var count = records.Count();

Make sure the variable is defined as IQueryable then when you use Count() method, EF will execute something like

select count(*) from ...

Otherwise, if the records is defined as IEnumerable, the sql generated will query the entire table and count rows returned.