Check if record exists with Dapper ORM

Question

What is the simplest way to check if record exists using the Dapper ORM?

Do I really need to define POCO objects for a query where I only want to check if a record exists?

Answer 1

int id = ...
var exists = conn.ExecuteScalar<bool>("select count(1) from Table where Id=@id", new {id});

should work...