In our last article we looked at System.Data in .NET Core 3.0. Now we turn our attention to System.Data.SqlClient, which is the SQL Server driver.

Microsoft announced a new data access driver for SQL Server that should be the path forward for data developers in the era of .NET Core.

Take advantage of the open source library Serilog to log your ASP.NET Core application’s data to SQL Server or another database target.

Microsoft is readying SQL Server on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and is making .NET Core 1.0 and ASP.NET Core 1.0 generally available today, as promised.

After chatting with my friend and fellow Microsoft MVP Allen White about Windows Server Core on a recent SQLCruise.com excursion, I realized that this is a technology I should be evangelizing more. I ...

Dapper is a lightweight, high performance, micro-ORM framework for .NET and .NET Core. It supports a wide range of databases such as Oracle, SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, and SQL CE.

SQL Bulk Insert has been tuned over the years to work well with the Microsoft .NET Framework. This tutorial shows you how to take advantage of its power.