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

I was getting the same error, but none of the solutions posted above worked for me.

What worked for me was to cast db.Custs into a list first, as so:

List =db.Custs.ToList.Where(...

I have no idea why it worked, but it did.