Can we control LINQ expression order with Skip(), Take() and OrderBy()

Question

I\'m using LINQ to Entities to display paged results. But I\'m having issues with the combination of Skip(), Take() and OrderBy() calls.

Answer 1

Are you absolutely certain the ordering is off? What does the SQL look like?

Can you reorder your code as follows and post the output?

// Redefine your queries. 
var query = ctx.EntitySet.Where(/* filter */).OrderBy(e => e.ChangedDate); 
var skipped = query.Skip(n).Take(x);

// let's look at the SQL, shall we?
var querySQL = query.ToTraceString();
var skippedSQL = skipped.ToTraceString();

// actual execution of the queries...
int total = query.Count(); 
var result = skipped.ToList(); 

Edit:

I'm absolutely certain. You can check my "edit" to see trace result of my query with skipped trace result that is imperative in this case. Count is not really important.

Yeah, I see it. Wow, that's a stumper. Might even be an outright bug. I note you're not using SQL Server... what DB are you using? Looks like it might be MySQl.