EF Core returns other types of queries using SQL calls

 Suppose you want to write SQL itself, without using LINQ. Need to run SQL queries that return something other than entity objects. Another way to do this in EF Core is to write ADO.NET code and get a database connection from EF.

public async Task<ActionResult> About()
{
    List<EnrollmentDateGroup> groups = new List<EnrollmentDateGroup>();
    var conn = _context.Database.GetDbConnection();
    try
    {
        await conn.OpenAsync();
        using (var command = conn.CreateCommand())
        {
            string query = "SELECT EnrollmentDate, COUNT(*) AS StudentCount "
                + "FROM Person "
                + "WHERE Discriminator = 'Student' "
                + "GROUP BY EnrollmentDate";
            command.CommandText = query;
            DbDataReader reader = await command.ExecuteReaderAsync();

            if (reader.HasRows)
            {
                while (await reader.ReadAsync())
                {
                    var row = new EnrollmentDateGroup { EnrollmentDate = reader.GetDateTime(0), StudentCount = reader.GetInt32(1) };
                    groups.Add(row);
                }
            }
            reader.Dispose();
        }
    }
    finally
    {
        conn.Close();
    }
    return View(groups);
}

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