Entity framework EF.Functions.Like vs string.Contains

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Like query supports wildcard characters and hence very useful compared to the string extension methods in some scenarios.

For ex: If we were to search all the 4 lettered names with ‘ri’ as the middle characters we could do EF.Functions.Like(c.Name, "_ri_");

or to get all the customers from cities which start with vowels:

var customers = from c in context.Customers 
                   where EF.Functions.Like(c.City, "[aeiou]%")
                   select c;

(Please read @Tseng’s answer on how they are translated differently into SQL queries)

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