C# Entity Framework Pagination

Question

Is there a way to get the row count of a complex Linq query and millions of records without hitting the db twice or writing 2 separate queries??

Answer 1

it is so easy on sql server . you can write this query :

select count() over(), table.* from table

the count () over() will return the count of total row in result , So you don't need to run two query.. Remember that you should run raw sql on your context or use dapper that return result as view model