> When you write an SQL statement, you are defining what you want and how the tables are related in your context. You are NOT telling the RDBMS what the actual

> When you write an SQL statement, you are defining what you want and how the tables are related in your context. You are NOT telling the RDBMS what the actual execution plan should look like. Which is the exact same thing you do when you write a LINQ query against a database context... Both are just languages that describe what you want to achieve, not how to achieve it.