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Is it possible to set connection collation within MySql connection string and how, since there's a default setting on the server that's used for new connections. Two things I can't do : Can't call SET COLLATION_CONNECTION after I open a connection, because I'm using Entity Framework that does all the calls for me not entirely true as you may see in the edit Can't change server default connection collation because of other databases and their respected applications that use them. All I'd like to specify is a certain connection string parameter in my web.config file like: "User id=dbuser

I am using DevArt's dotConnect and Entity Developer for my application. I've created the tables using the Entity-First feature. I notice that many of the column types are set to CLOB. I only have experience with MySQL and Microsoft SQL server, so I am not sure about using CLOB for the application. I did some reading, and found out that CLOB are for large chunk of data. The questions are: Is using CLOB for most fields, such as the user's gender (which should be a varchar (1) ) or the full name, feasible? The steps for converting a CLOB field to VARCHAR2 requires dropping the column then re

I'm using LINQ to Entities to display paged results. But I'm having issues with the combination of Skip() , Take() and OrderBy() calls. Everything works fine, except that OrderBy() is assigned too late. It's executed after result set has been cut down by Skip() and Take() . So each page of results has items in order. But ordering is done on a page handful of data instead of ordering of the whole set and then limiting those records with Skip() and Take() . How do I set precedence with these statements? My example (simplified) var query = ctx.EntitySet.Where(/* filter */).OrderByDescending(e =>