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title: "How LINQ is beneficial than Stored Procedures?"  
description: "How LINQ is beneficial than Stored Procedures?"  
author: "Anupam Mishra"  
published: 2016-03-28  
updated: 2020-09-20  
canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/interview/23002/how-linq-is-beneficial-than-stored-procedures  
category: "linq"  
tags: ["linq", "entity framework"]  
reading_time: 2 minutes  

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# How LINQ is beneficial than Stored Procedures?

#### How LINQ is beneficial than Stored Procedures?

There are couple of advantage of LINQ over stored procedures:\
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1. **Debugging** - It is really very hard to debug the Stored procedure but as LINQ is part of .NET, we can use visual studio's debugger to debug the queries.\
2. **Deployment -** With stored procedures, we need to provide an additional script for stored procedures but with LINQ everything gets complied into single DLL hence deployment becomes easy.\
3. **Type Safety -** LINQ is type safe, so queries errors are type checked at compile time. It is really good to encounter an error when compiling rather than runtime exception!

## Answers

### Answer by Anupam Mishra

#### How LINQ is beneficial than Stored Procedures?

There are couple of advantage of LINQ over stored procedures:\
\
1. **Debugging** - It is really very hard to debug the Stored procedure but as LINQ is part of .NET, we can use visual studio's debugger to debug the queries.\
2. **Deployment -** With stored procedures, we need to provide an additional script for stored procedures but with LINQ everything gets complied into single DLL hence deployment becomes easy.\
3. **Type Safety -** LINQ is type safe, so queries errors are type checked at compile time. It is really good to encounter an error when compiling rather than runtime exception!


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