What is LINQPad 5?
LINQPad 5+ compiles your queries using the Microsoft Roslyn libraries (in the past it used . NET’s CSharpCodeProvider and VBCodeProvider). Because C# and VB are statically typed, any database objects that you reference need the backing of a typed DataContext.
What does LINQPad do?
LINQPad is a software utility targeted at . NET Framework and . NET Core development. It is used to interactively query SQL databases (among other data sources such as OData or WCF Data Services) using LINQ, as well as interactively writing C# code without the need for an IDE.
What is a LINQ?
Language-Integrated Query (LINQ) is the name for a set of technologies based on the integration of query capabilities directly into the C# language. Traditionally, queries against data are expressed as simple strings without type checking at compile time or IntelliSense support.
Which is faster SQL or LINQ?
We can see right away that LINQ is a lot slower than raw SQL, but compiled LINQ is a bit faster. Note that results are in microseconds; real-world queries may take tens or even hundreds of milliseconds, so LINQ overhead will be hardly noticeable.