Linq to SQL: select optimization

Question

On large tables in MSSQL; selecting specific columns results in greater speed of the query. Does the same apply to Linq to SQL?

Would this:

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Answer 1

Additionally to what the others have said, the new unnamed structure will be a much lighter-weight object than the Person object -- it would be much faster, even if you selected all the columns. (Person has method/fields etc to support writing the object back to the database. The unnamed type does not.)