Entity Framework query
- by carter-boater
Hi all,
I have a piece of code that I don't know how to improve it.
I have two entities: EntityP and EntityC.
EntityP is the parent of EntityC. It is 1 to many relationship.
EntityP has a property depending on a property of all its attached EntityC.
I need to load a list of EntityP with the property set correctly. So I wrote a piece of code to get the EntityP List first.It's called entityP_List. Then as I wrote below, I loop through the entityP_List and for each of them, I query the database with a "any" function which will eventually be translated to "NOT EXIST" sql query. The reason I use this is that I don't want to load all the attached entityC from database to memory, because I only need the aggregation value of their property. But the problem here is, the looping will query the databae many times, for each EntityP!
So I am wondering if anybody can help me improve the code to query the database only once to get all the EntityP.IsAll_C_Complete set, without load EntityC to memory.
foreach(EntityP p in entityP_List)
{
isAnyNotComoplete = entities.entityC.Any(c => c.IsComplete==false && c.parent.ID == p.ID);
p.IsAll_C_Complete = !isAnyNotComoplete;
}
Thank you very much!