The solution is to use SQL views, materialized views, or create a new table that contains only the filtered data the user needs.

Peter steals another tip from a reader: Entity Framework isn't just for tables and stored procedures. Leveraging SQL Server views can simplify your code.

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Just use SQL views instead of select statements and then treat the views the same as tables, and we’re done. Views have more limitations than select statements, but for most use cases, they’ll ...