Executing raw SQL string using linq2db

Question

Using linq2db (https://github.com/linq2db/linq2db) can I execute a raw SQL string and get the result as a dynamic?

I'm looking for something like ADO.NET's DBCommand.ExecuteReader or Dapper's Query<dynamic>.

Answer 1

You can easy implements it yourself:

            foreach (var rec in DataConnection.Query<dynamic>(reader =>
            {
                IDictionary<string, object> eo = new ExpandoObject();
                for (var index = 0; index < reader.FieldCount; index++)
                {
                    eo.Add(reader.GetName(index), reader.GetValue(index));
                }
                return eo;
            }, "select first 2 \"Guid\", \"DongleID\" from \"Sellings\""))
            {
                Console.WriteLine(rec.DongleID);
            }

Answer 2

First, you need to create a class that has so many properties as your query result.

Second important thing is that you need to add attributes to each property of this class to match the name of column that results after executing this "select". For example: [Column(@"user_firstname")].

After that you can put this class in the call of the query. I can demonstrate it:

using (var db = new TestDB())
{
   var usersList = db.Query<YourCustomClass>("your select query here").ToList();
}

Now you will have all data in your list of type "YourCustomClass".

I hope this is the answer that you were looking for.

Answer 3

linq2db is strongly typed but you can execute raw sql and map the result to anonymous class. For example:

var result = ExecuteAnonymous(db, 
    "select id, name from sysobjects", 
    new { id = 0, name = "" });

Where ExecuteAnonumous is helper method:

IQueryable<T> ExecuteAnonymous(DataConnection db, string sql, T typeObject)
{
    return db.Query<T>(sql);
}