>Hi everybody,
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>I have the following EF query
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>  _countriesShort = _countriesAdapter.GetAll().OrderByDescending(x => x.Preferred).ThenBy(b => b.SortOrder).
>                Select(c=> new CountriesShort {  CountryId = c.CountryId, Descrip = c.Descrip, Iso2Code = c.Iso2Code } ).ToList();

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>I am watching this code executing in SQL Profiler. I expect this query to pull just 3 columns after somehow selecting rows in the correct order (it's tricky, actually - in SQL Server I would use row_number() function for this instead).
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>However, I see that query just translates into select all columns from the Countries table and I see no order by statement at all in this query.
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>Can you explain this, please?
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>Thanks in advance.

OrderBy() is a System.Linq extension - i.e it operates on the IEnumerable returned by your .....GetAll() - it will not be part of the SQL query