Delete a record with the primary key

Question

Hi;

Is there a way to delete a record by its primary key?

Yes I know I can do the following:

using (var context = new MyDbContext())
{
    var entity = context.MyEntity.Find(id);
    context.MyEntity.Remove(entity);
    context.SaveChanges();
}

But I prefer to not incur the unnecessary overhead of loading the record first.

I am aware of this question but it is 11 years old and I'm hoping there's been a solution for this added since then.

thanks - dave

Answer 1

@David Thielen, Welcome to Microsoft Q&A, If you want to delete a record based on the primary key and don't want to spend unnecessary overhead for it, I recommend that you use SQL RAW method to delete the record, like the following:

using (var context = new YourDbContext())
{
    var sql = "DELETE FROM YourTable WHERE Id = {0}";
    context.Database.ExecuteSqlRaw(sql, yourEntityId);
}

The above code delete the records in the sql server without loading the entity type.

Best Regards,

Jack

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