Paging with Entity Framework 7 and SQL Server 2008

Question

I\'m trying to use paging (that is .Skip(...).Take(...) in Entity Framework 7. It works OK with Microsoft SQL Server 2012 and 2014, but fails with the following

Answer 1

It's broken in RC 1. Gotta wait to get RC 2.

https://github.com/aspnet/EntityFramework/issues/4616

Answer 2

If you use Edmx file, you must open the edmx file using XML Editor and change

ProviderManifestToken="2012" ==> ProviderManifestToken="2008"

in line 7.

Please take a look at this blog post for more information: http://erikej.blogspot.com.tr/2014/12/a-breaking-change-in-entity-framework.html

Answer 3

Here, just set UseRowNumberForPaging() in ConfigureServices

services.AddDbContext<CallcContext>(options => 
options.UseSqlServer(Configuration.GetConnectionString("Connectionstring"),opt=> { opt.UseRowNumberForPaging(); }));

Answer 4

I encountered this problem myself using EF 7 and sql server 2008. Fortunately in the latest rc1 version of EF 7 you can solve this by using .UseRowNumberForPaging() as shown in this example:

services.AddEntityFramework()
  .AddSqlServer()
  .AddDbContext<YourDbContext>(options =>
     options.UseSqlServer(configuration["Data:DefaultConnection:ConnectionString"])
                    // this is needed unless you are on mssql 2012 or higher
                    .UseRowNumberForPaging()
                );

Answer 5

MyDbConnectionString is Connection string from any source

protected override void OnConfiguring(DbContextOptionsBuilder optionsBuilder)
{
    optionsBuilder.UseSqlServer(_config["MyDbConnectionString"], 
                options=>
                {
                    options.UseRowNumberForPaging();
                });
}

UseRowNumberForPaging() solved issue in any case except for edmx file scenario.

Answer 6

You need to use something like this :

var MinPageRank = (pageIndex - 1) * pageSize + 1;
var MaxPageRank = (pageIndex * pageSize);

var person = _context.Person.FromSql($"SELECT * FROM (SELECT [RANK] = ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY Surname),* FROM Person) A WHERE A.[RANK] BETWEEN {MinPageRank} AND {MaxPageRank}").ToList();

IQueryable<Person> PersonIQ = from s in person.AsQueryable() select s;
Person = await PaginatedList<Person>.CreateAsync(PersonIQ .AsNoTracking(), pageIndex ?? 1, pageSize, sourceFull);