Insert into many-to-many relationship tables

Question

Simple scenario

[ClientTable]: ClientId, ClientName, Phone, Age
[CityTable]: CityID, CityName, Country
[ClientCityTable]: ClientCityID, ClientID, CityID

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Answer 1

From the result, it really does not matter. Both ways are correct.

Advantages of the second (only one insertonsubmit)

• cleaner
• less code

Advantage of the first one

• for people who are new to Linq2sql easier to read/understand
• also if there are no correct references, an insert will be done (or is this a disadvantage?, up to you)

As you already found out, the result is the same.