LINQ to SQL does not generate ORDER BY when DISTINCT is used?

Question

The following basic LINQ to SQL statement does not result in the orderby working. As you can see in the T-SQL there is no orderby. Do you know why?

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Answer 1

I got same issue while sorting year from transaction table.

try this

 var results = (from stats in db.t_harvest_statistics
                       select stats.unit_number).Distinct().OrderBy(x =(Int16)x.unit_number).ToList();

after getting distinct value use orderby method