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The Real Cost of Returning the Identity Value in EF Core

When you insert thousands of rows into SQL Server with Entity Framework Core, performance drops quickly. Most developers blame change tracking.

  • EF Core makes extra round-trip to database for identity values
  • SQL Server auto-increment primary key triggers this overhead
  • Large batches suffer significant performance slowdown

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