What's the Linq to SQL equivalent to TOP?

Question

How do I do this

Select top 10 Foo from MyTable

in Linq to SQL?

Answer 1

from m in MyTable
take 10
select m.Foo

This assumes that MyTable implements IQueryable. You may have to access that through a DataContext or some other provider.

It also assumes that Foo is a column in MyTable that gets mapped to a property name.

See http://blogs.msdn.com/vbteam/archive/2008/01/08/converting-sql-to-linq-part-7-union-top-subqueries-bill-horst.aspx for more detail.

Answer 2

You would use the Take(N) method.

Answer 3

Use the take method:

var foo = (from t in MyTable
           select t.Foo).Take(10);

In VB LINQ has a take expression:

Dim foo = From t in MyTable _
          Take 10 _
          Select t.Foo

Answer 4

Use the Take(int n) method.

var q = query.Take(10);

Answer 5

This works well in C#

var q = from m in MyTable.Take(10)
        select m.Foo

Answer 6

I do like this:

 var dados =  from d in dc.tbl_News.Take(4) 
                orderby d.idNews descending

                select new 
                {
                    d.idNews,
                    d.titleNews,
                    d.textNews,
                    d.dateNews,
                    d.imgNewsThumb
                };

Answer 7

Take is not exactly the same as TOP 10 as it forces a sort. Is there anyway to take an aribitrary top 10 without the sort?

Answer 8

Taking data of DataBase without sorting is the same as random take

Answer 9

@Janei: my first comment here is about your sample ;)

I think if you do like this, you want to take 4, then applying the sort on these 4.

var dados =  from d in dc.tbl_News.Take(4) 
                orderby d.idNews descending
                select new 
                {
                    d.idNews,
                    d.titleNews,
                    d.textNews,
                    d.dateNews,
                    d.imgNewsThumb
                };

Different than sorting whole tbl_News by idNews descending and then taking 4

var dados =  (from d in dc.tbl_News
                orderby d.idNews descending
                select new 
                {
                    d.idNews,
                    d.titleNews,
                    d.textNews,
                    d.dateNews,
                    d.imgNewsThumb
                }).Take(4);

no ? results may be different.