Linq over SQL does a pretty good job of optimising the data returned, and what tends to happen with SPs (having a few SPs that return the world because they're called in a few slightly different ways ...
Many database developers have loudly bemoaned Microsoft's decision late last year to marginalize LINQ to SQL in favor of its ADO.NET Entity Framework. Hence there will be no major emphasis on LINQ to ...
Take advantage of the Chunk method in LINQ to split large data sets into a sequence of chunks for more efficient processing. Language-Integrated Query, or LINQ for short, brings a query execution ...