Raw SQL Queries...Why Raw SQL Queries?...Entity Framework allows you to query using LINQ with your entity classes, but sometimes you want to run queries using raw SQL directly against the database. You will need raw SQL queries where you cannot use LINQ to represent the query, for example;...If the generated SQL is not efficient enough....If you want to make use of existing stored procedures...If you just prefer to write your queries in SQL....DbSet.SqlQuery...The ...DbSet.SqlQuery... method ena...