How to Improve LINQ to SQL Performance with Complied Query

Introduction

In this article I will explain how to improve LINQ to SQL query performance with Complied Query. There may be scenario where we need to execute a particular query many times and repeatedly. LINQ allows us to make this task very easy by enabling us to create a query and make it complied always.  We call this type of query as complied query.

Benefit of Compiled Query

1.    Query does need to compile each time so execution of query is fast.
2.    Query is compiled once and can be used any number of time.
3.    Query does need to be recompiled even if the parameter of query is being changed.

Steps to create Complied Query

1.    Create a static class
2.    Add namespace System.Data.Linq.
3.    Use CompliedQuery class to create complied LINQ query.

Let us say we want to create a compiled query to retrieve the entire Person from School database.

1.    Create Static class 

2.    Define static query in the class 

We can pass as many parameters in Func

1.    First parameter is always name of the DataContext class created by LINQ to SQL. In our example name of DataContext class is DataClass1DataContext.
2.    Last parameter is the result parameter. This says the return type of the result of the query.  This is always a generic IQueryable.  In our example it is IQueryable<Person>
3.    In between first and last parameter we can have parameter to apply against the query.

4.    Keyword to create complied query is

Let us write a complied query to fetch all the Persons from DataContext

And we will call this compiled query as below; MyCompliedQueries is name of the static class.

Program.cs

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Data.Linq ; 
 
namespace ConsoleApplication5
  {
    class Program
        {
            static void Main(string[] args)
                {
                    DataClasses1DataContext context = new DataClasses1DataContext();
                    var result = MyCompliedQueries.CompliedQueryForPesron(context);
                    foreach (var r in result)
                    {
                        Console.WriteLine(r.FirstName + r.LastName);
                    }
 
                    Console.ReadKey(true);
                    
                }
        }
 
    static class MyCompliedQueries
        {
               public static Func<DataClasses1DataContext ,IQueryable<Person>>
               CompliedQueryForPesron = CompiledQuery.Compile(
                                          (DataClasses1DataContext context)=>
                                              from c in context.Persons select c );
 
         
        }
}

 

Output 

Now if we want to pass some parameter in compiled query

And we will call this query as below,

Program.cs

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Data.Linq ; 
 
namespace ConsoleApplication5
  {
    class Program
        {
            static void Main(string[] args)
                {
                    DataClasses1DataContext context = new DataClasses1DataContext();
                    
                    var result1 = MyCompliedQueries.CompiledQueryWithwhere(context, 9);
                    foreach (var r in result1)
                    {
                        Console.WriteLine(r.FirstName + r.LastName);
                    }
 
                    Console.ReadKey(true);
                }
        }
 
    static class MyCompliedQueries
        {
               
               public static Func<DataClasses1DataContext , int , IQueryable<Person>>
                 CompiledQueryWithwhere = CompiledQuery.Compile(
                                           (DataClasses1DataContext context,
                                               int PersonId) =>
                                               from c in context.Persons
                                               where c.PersonID == PersonId select c
                                              );
 
         
        }
}

Output 

Conclusion

 In this article we have learned how to improve LINQ to SQL performance by multiple times than normal query executing time in LINQ. To improve the performance we have used Complied Query to reduce parse query again and again and run directly without re generate again. Hopes help and thank you for reading.