Generated query for tinyint column introduces a CAST to int

Question

I am querying a tinyint column and entity-framework generates a SELECT query that introduces a CAST to INT for this column even when the value that I am using in the WHERE clause is of the type byte.

Looking the Model, the generated Type for my tinyint column is byte.

Looking the code:

byte byteValue = 6;
var entityList = from r in rep.DataContext.FooTable
                 where r.TinyintColumn == byteValue
                 select r;

Looking the generated query:

SELECT [Extent1].[TinyintColumn] AS [TinyintColumn] WHERE @p__linq__0 = CAST( [Extent1].[TinyintColumn] AS int) 

I have strict restrictions in the performance so I don't want those CAST in any select.

So my question whould be, is there any way to avoid this CAST over the column tinyint? or am I doing something wrong?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

If you use IList<T>.Contains with a List<byte> the Entity Framework won't cast.

List<byte> byteValue = new List<byte> { 6 };
var entityList = from r in rep.DataContext.FooTable
             where byteValue.Contains(r.TinyintColumn)
             select r;

I ran into the same problem and blogged about it.