Raw SQL Query without DbSet - Entity Framework Core

Question

With Entity Framework Core removing dbData.Database.SqlQuery I can\'t find a solution to build a raw SQL Query for my full-text search query th

Answer 1

You can use this (from https://github.com/aspnet/EntityFrameworkCore/issues/1862#issuecomment-451671168 ) :

public static class SqlQueryExtensions
{
    public static IList<T> SqlQuery<T>(this DbContext db, string sql, params object[] parameters) where T : class
    {
        using (var db2 = new ContextForQueryType<T>(db.Database.GetDbConnection()))
        {
            return db2.Query<T>().FromSql(sql, parameters).ToList();
        }
    }

    private class ContextForQueryType<T> : DbContext where T : class
    {
        private readonly DbConnection connection;

        public ContextForQueryType(DbConnection connection)
        {
            this.connection = connection;
        }

        protected override void OnConfiguring(DbContextOptionsBuilder optionsBuilder)
        {
            // switch on the connection type name to enable support multiple providers
            // var name = con.GetType().Name;
            optionsBuilder.UseSqlServer(connection, options => options.EnableRetryOnFailure());

            base.OnConfiguring(optionsBuilder);
        }

        protected override void OnModelCreating(ModelBuilder modelBuilder)
        {
            modelBuilder.Entity<T>().HasNoKey();
            base.OnModelCreating(modelBuilder);
        }
    }
}

And the usage:

    using (var db = new Db())
    {
        var results = db.SqlQuery<ArbitraryType>("select 1 id, 'joe' name");
        //or with an anonymous type like this
        var results2 = db.SqlQuery(() => new { id =1, name=""},"select 1 id, 'joe' name");
    }

Answer 2

I used Dapper to bypass this constraint of Entity framework Core.

IDbConnection.Query

is working with either sql query or stored procedure with multiple parameters. By the way it's a bit faster (see benchmark tests )

Dapper is easy to learn. It took 15 minutes to write and run stored procedure with parameters. Anyway you may use both EF and Dapper. Below is an example:

 public class PodborsByParametersService
{
    string _connectionString = null;


    public PodborsByParametersService(string connStr)
    {
        this._connectionString = connStr;

    }

    public IList<TyreSearchResult> GetTyres(TyresPodborView pb,bool isPartner,string partnerId ,int pointId)
    {

        string sqltext  "spGetTyresPartnerToClient";

        var p = new DynamicParameters();
        p.Add("@PartnerID", partnerId);
        p.Add("@PartnerPointID", pointId);

        using (IDbConnection db = new SqlConnection(_connectionString))
        {
            return db.Query<TyreSearchResult>(sqltext, p,null,true,null,CommandType.StoredProcedure).ToList();
        }


        }
}

Answer 3

You can also use QueryFirst. Like Dapper, this is totally outside EF. Unlike Dapper (or EF), you don't need to maintain the POCO, you edit your sql SQL in a real environment, and it's continually revalidated against the DB. Disclaimer: I'm the author of QueryFirst.

Answer 4

My case used stored procedure instead of raw SQL

Created a class

Public class School
{
    [Key]
    public Guid SchoolId { get; set; }
    public string Name { get; set; }
    public string Branch { get; set; }
    public int NumberOfStudents  { get; set; }
}

Added below on my DbContext class

public DbSet<School> SP_Schools { get; set; }

To execute the stored procedure:

var MySchools = _db.SP_Schools.FromSqlRaw("GetSchools @schoolId, @page, @size ",
              new SqlParameter("schoolId", schoolId),
              new SqlParameter("page", page),
              new SqlParameter("size", size)))
.IgnoreQueryFilters();

Answer 5

For now, until there is something new from EFCore I would used a command and map it manually

  using (var command = this.DbContext.Database.GetDbConnection().CreateCommand())
  {
      command.CommandText = "SELECT ... WHERE ...> @p1)";
      command.CommandType = CommandType.Text;
      var parameter = new SqlParameter("@p1",...);
      command.Parameters.Add(parameter);

      this.DbContext.Database.OpenConnection();

      using (var result = command.ExecuteReader())
      {
         while (result.Read())
         {
            .... // Map to your entity
         }
      }
  }

Try to SqlParameter to avoid Sql Injection.

 dbData.Product.FromSql("SQL SCRIPT");

FromSql doesn't work with full query. Example if you want to include a WHERE clause it will be ignored.

Some Links:

Executing Raw SQL Queries using Entity Framework Core

Raw SQL Queries