On: The Next 50 Years of Databases (2015)

[gwbas1c]

LINQ lets you query and filter collections. You're thinking of LINQ to SQL.

[cwbrandsma → gwbas1c]

I don’t think that is used much anymore. Most shops I’ve been on moved to Entity Framework. Uses a very similar syntax tho.

[gwbas1c → cwbrandsma]

The few times I looked at LINQ to SQL, it didn't meet my requirements.

The first time it had the "update" problem, meaning, it appeared that I had to always load an object into memory before updating it. (2008)

The second time, it wasn't available in Mono. (2011)

Granted, a lot changed since

[takeda → gwbas1c]

I see, I never used it myself, from the outside it looked promising it is sad that it didn't deliver.