> I was wondering if the previous line that built the query variable downloaded all 15 bajillion rows in my Customers table of people whose names started with '

> I was wondering if the previous line that built the query variable downloaded all 15 bajillion rows in my Customers table of people whose names started with 'A' so it could get rows 21 through 30. That would be a silly thing to do. LINQ is made to be lazy. At worst it would pull the first thirty rows, twenty in Skip and ten in Take.