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.

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.

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.

Net Core 2.0 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux is available through yum and container images. Red Hat Enterprise Linux and OpenShift also gain support for SQL Server 2017.

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

The ability to use SQL with Entity Framework Core has always been a cool feature. There's a new feature in Entity Framework Core that opens the door for whole new set of SQL-related functionality.