Currently, RepoDB requires a concreate .NET CLR Type return type just to retrieve the results from the fetch operations (i.e: ExecuteQuery, Query, QueryAll and BatchQuery).

Let us say, you only would like to query all the product name from the [dbo].[Product] table (like below).

using (var connection = new SqlConnection(connectionString))
{
	var result = connection.ExecuteQuery<ProductNameOnly>("SELECT Name [dbo].[Product] ORDER BY Name;");
}

You are required to create a concrete class ProductNameOnly.

public class ProductNameOnly
{
	public string Name { get; set; }
}

This is quite too extensive in the client side (or the library consumer) just to create this un-organized class.

This user story will allow the developers to do the magic query of the targetted Scalar (column-based) values. The propose call would be below.

String:

using (var connection = new SqlConnection(connectionString))
{
	var result = connection.ExecuteQuery<string>("SELECT Name [dbo].[Product] ORDER BY Name;");
}

Long/Int:

using (var connection = new SqlConnection(connectionString))
{
	var result = connection.ExecuteQuery<long>("SELECT Id [dbo].[Order] ORDER BY Id;");
}

In which the result is of type IEnumerable<Type>.