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Mastering Entity Framework Core 2.0

You're reading from   Mastering Entity Framework Core 2.0 Dive into entities, relationships, querying, performance optimization, and more, to learn efficient data-driven development

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788294133
Length 386 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Prabhakaran Anbazhagan Prabhakaran Anbazhagan
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Kickstart - Introduction to Entity Framework Core 2. The Other Way Around – Database First Approach FREE CHAPTER 3. Relationships – Terminology and Conventions 4. Building Relationships – Understanding Mapping 5. Know the Validation – Explore Inbuilt Validations 6. Save Yourself – Hack Proof Your Entities 7. Going Raw – Leveraging SQL Queries in LINQ 8. Query Is All We Need – Query Object Pattern 9. Fail Safe Mechanism – Transactions 10. Make It Real – Handling Concurrencies 11. Performance – It's All About Execution Time 12. Isolation – Building a Multi-Tenant Database

The AsNoTracking() method

EF's tracking behavior depends on the entry available in the change tracker; it is the default behavior. We could override this behavior to achieve performance improvements in certain scenarios where tracking is not required; for example, the read-only operations such as displaying a list of posts, displaying post information, and so on. This tracking is the key to EF in arriving at the changes required to be persisted during SaveChanges() execution.

How does tracking work?

As discussed in the previous section, any query that returns an entity (registered in data context) will be a part of tracking. Also as mentioned about how persistence occurs, the changes performed on those entities...

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