How C# Strings Silently Kill Your SQL Server Indexes in Dapper
Hacker News
March 6, 2026
If you're using Dapper with anonymous objects to query varchar columns, you're probably sending nvarchar(4000) parameters — causing CONVERT_IMPLICIT on every row and defeating your indexes. Here's the fix.
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Originally published on Hacker News on 3/6/2026