Add option to disable concurrency checking at the SaveChanges level

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Difficulty
5/5
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Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
csharp
Domain
databases

Research direction

The issue names DbContext and SaveChanges but no files or tests. Start by reviewing EF Core's SaveChanges concurrency behavior and how entity-level updates are generated. Done means a supported way to bypass concurrency checking for selected entities during SaveChanges, with documented behavior and coverage for the requested scenario.

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Description

area-save-changes customer-reported

On our application we added optimistic concurrency using the [ConcurrencyCheck] annotation on our model classes. It is working fine, but there are some very specific cases where we would like to force an update without doing concurrency checking (yes, we know the risks).

We would like a built-in solution on EF Core DbContext that ignores concurrency checking for some entities when calling SaveChanges. Something like:

_context.IgnoreConcurrencyChecking(entity);
_context.SaveChanges();
//No DbConcurrencyException just a forced updated

Thanks.

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