With Entity Framework is it better to use .First() or .Take(1) for “TOP 1”?

Question

We are implementing some EF data repositories, and we have some queries which would include TOP 1

I have read many posts suggesting to use .Ta

Answer 1

From LINQPad:

C#:

age_Centers.Select(c => c.Id).First();
age_Centers.Select(c => c.Id).FirstOrDefault();
age_Centers.Select(c => c.Id).Take(1).Dump();

SQL:

SELECT TOP (1) [t0].[Id]
FROM [age_Centers] AS [t0]
GO

SELECT TOP (1) [t0].[Id]
FROM [age_Centers] AS [t0]
GO

SELECT TOP (1) [t0].[Id]
FROM [age_Centers] AS [t0]

*Note that Take(1) enumerates and returns an IQueryable.