Entity Framework core - Contains is case sensitive or case insensitive?

Question

\"Contains\" in Entity Framework core should equivalent to the SQL %like% operator. Therefore \"Contains\" should be case insensitive however it is case sensitive! (at least

Answer 1

Use Explicit collation in a query

For example

var customers = context.Customers
.Where(c => EF.Functions.Collate(c.Name, "SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CS_AS") == "John")
.ToList();

For more details see the msdn link

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/ef/core/miscellaneous/collations-and-case-sensitivity