I am working on an ASP.NET MVC application and need to fetch a user from a database based on their username. This involves querying a User table to retrieve the user’s details. Given that database operations can be time-consuming and may block the main thread, I’m considering using asynchronous processing. Should I use asynchronous methods for this database query to improve performance and responsiveness? Additionally, what are the benefits of using asynchronous methods in this scenario?