LINQ To SQL exception: Local sequence cannot be used in LINQ to SQL implementation of query operators except the Contains operator

Question

Consider this LINQ To SQL query. It\'s intention is to take a string[] of search terms and apply the terms to a bunch of different fields on the SQL table:

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Answer 1

Just a thought (not directly related to the question, but it might help other viewers):

I was getting the same error message as you, even though I was using the Contains() method correctly, and it took me quite a while to figure out that the root of my problem was returning an IEnumerable to something that needed to further filter the results of the L2S query. Once I changed the function's return type to an IQueryable, the problem went away. It makes sense, seeing that an IEnumerable can't be further filtered, but an IQueryable can.