Hello Jin,
The performance will be the expected one if you just use the Count() LINQ method to extract the total number of records from the database for a specific entity. Then you should again use LINQ with the Skip() and Take() calls so you can extract the exact records that you want to show in the UI.
Regards,
Zoran
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