Point to the books she's written. Her blog posts. Her pluralsight videos.

But in the end, sometimes you have to do what you feel is wrong.

>Craig,
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>I fully agree with you and Julie. But, I'm working with a real rocket scientist and some other guys with more experience than myself and am in a situation where my book learning, blog reading, and Pluralsight videos and such are pretty much laughed at.
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>And, finally, these guys have never even heard of Julie.
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>Again, the Migrations namespace, IMO, is a dead giveaway that it should not be used.
>Add that to the fact that SQL Profiler shows it doing a SELECT query against the table before sending in an insert or an update is a dead giveaway that the AddOrUpdate doesn't care much about performance.