Converting SQL containing top, count, group and order to LINQ (2 Entities)

Question

Some LINQ queries still puzzle me.

for a table \'Hits\' containing two columns, \'Page\' and \'Date\', I want to find the most Pages with the most rows in a defined

Answer 1

Something like this should work:

(from p in DataContext.Hits
where (p.Date >= minDate) && (p.Date < maxDate)
group p by p.Page into g
select new { Page = g.Key, Number = g.Count() }).OrderByDescending(x => x.Number).Take(10);