Entity Framework Core 2.1 Performance – Beware Of N+1 Queries (Revisited)

In the previous post we have identified some Entity Framework (EF) LINQ queries that are affected by so called N+1 queries problem. In the meantime a new version (2.1-RC1) of Entity Framework has been released so we check the SQL statement generation yet another time.

In diesem Artikel:

Entity Framework Core 2.1 Performance – Beware Of N+1 Queries (Revisited)
Pawel Gerr ist Architekt und Consultant bei Thinktecture. Er hat sich auf .NET Core Backends spezialisiert und kennt Entity Framework von vorne bis hinten.
Samples: Github-Repo Positive thing(s) first… In the previous version the selection of a filtered collection was affected by the problem – with and without ToList() but not anymore
				
					var groups = Context.ProductGroups
          .Where(g => g.Name.Contains("Group"))
          .Select(g => new
          {
            ProductGroup = g,
            Products = g.Products.Where(p => p.Name.Contains("1")).ToList()
          })
          .ToList();
				
			

Adding ToList() leads to 2 SQL statements instead of N+1 where N is the number of selected product groups.

1 query for fetching of the product groups:

				
					SELECT
    [g].[Id], [g].[Name]
FROM
    [ProductGroups] AS [g]
WHERE
    CHARINDEX(N'Group', [g].[Name]) > 0
				
			

And 1 query for fetching of the products:

				
					SELECT
    [g.Products].[Id], [g.Products].[GroupId], [g.Products].[Name], [t].[Id]
FROM
    [Products] AS [g.Products]
    INNER JOIN
    (
        SELECT
            [g0].[Id]
        FROM
            [ProductGroups] AS[g0]
        WHERE
            CHARINDEX(N'Group', [g0].[Name]) > 0
    ) AS [t]
        ON [g.Products].[GroupId] = [t].[Id]
WHERE
    CHARINDEX(N'1', [g.Products].[Name]) > 0
ORDER BY
    [t].[Id]
				
			

Alas, the usage of FirstOrDefault() is still producing N+1 queries

				
					var groups = Context.ProductGroups
          .Where(g => g.Name.Contains("Group"))
          .Select(g => new
          {
            ProductGroup = g,
            Product = g.Products.FirstOrDefault()
          })
          .ToList();
				
			

and at the moment GroupBy() is not as powerful as in EF 6 so the following query fetches the whole table instead of the first product for each product group.

				
					var firstProducts = Context.Products
                  .GroupBy(p => p.GroupId)
                  .Select(g => g.FirstOrDefault())
                  .ToList();
				
			

The corresponding SQL statement is:

				
					SELECT
    [p].[Id], [p].[GroupId], [p].[Name]
FROM
    [Products] AS [p]
ORDER BY
    [p].[GroupId]
				
			

There is a lot of work to do but we are getting there… until then keep using your favorite profiling tool.

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