When should one avoid using NHibernate's lazy-loading feature?

Question

Most of what I hear about NHibernate\'s lazy-loading, is that it\'s better to use it, than not to use it. It seems like it just makes sense to minimize database access, in

Answer 1

I have seen many performance problems aring from wrong loading behaviour configuration in Hibernate. The situation is quite the same with NHibernate I think. My recommendation is to always use lazy relations and then use eager fetching statemetns in your query - like fetch joins - . This ensures you are not loading to much data and you can avoid to many SQL queries.

It is easy to make a lazy releation eager by a query. It is nearly impossible the other way round.