Ignoring accents while searching the database using Entity Framework

Question

I have a database table that contains names with accented characters. Like ä and so on.

I need to get all records using EF4 from a table that contains s

Answer 1

I know that is not so clean solution, but after reading this I tried something like this:

var query = this.DataContext.Users.SqlQuery(string.Format("SELECT *  FROM dbo.Users WHERE LastName like '%{0}%' COLLATE Latin1_general_CI_AI", parameters.SearchTerm));

After that you are still able to call methods on 'query' object like Count, OrderBy, Skip etc.