Saving, Transactions, and Concurrency

It directly updates the database without tracking changes. It accumulates changes and executes them in a single transaction. It permanently deletes all marked entities without confirmation. It automatically rolls back all changes made in the context.

To improve the performance of SaveChanges calls. To prevent overwriting changes made by another user. To allow multiple users to edit the same record simultaneously without issues. To ensure all transactions are committed automatically.

When you want to save changes after every entity modification. When an operation spans multiple SaveChanges calls or mixes with raw SQL. When you want to validate data before saving any changes. When handling database initialization.

Notify the user immediately of the failure. Automatically retry the operation using EnableRetryOnFailure(). Ignore the fault and continue processing. Open a new transaction for every fault.