I really like LINQ, and I generally also tend to prefer LINQPad over SQL Management Studio for simple DB queries/lookups. It has the extra benefit of allowing m

I really like LINQ, and I generally also tend to prefer LINQPad over SQL Management Studio for simple DB queries/lookups. It has the extra benefit of allowing me to mix declarative LINQ based queries with imperative (C#) code, making it easy to do things like quick data cleaning/transformations, merges/joins with external data etc.