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What does the SelectValue builder method do? What is “select value” in Entity SQL?

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What does the SelectValue builder method do? What is “select value” in Entity SQL?

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The Select and SelectValue builder methods on ObjectQuery both do a very similar thing in that they allow you to project particular values from an overall entity or other query result. The difference is that with Select you ALWAYS get back an enumeration of DbDataRecords. If you select two properties, then you will get back DbDataRecords with two columns. If you select only one property, you will get back DbDataRecords with one column. In the case of SelectValue, though, you can only specify one property and instead of getting back an enumeraiton of DbDataRecords with one column, you will just get back an enumeration with the value out of that column. So if you had advWorksContext.Product.SelectValue(“Length(it.Name)”), the return type would be an enumeration of Int32s. If you did the same thing except with Select, first off you would not supply a generic type parameter to the method (it would just be advWorksContext.Product.Select(“Length(it.

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