General question:We recently switched one of our applications to Application Role security, which mandates (because the backend is SQL2000) that we turn off .NET Connection pooling for the sql ...

Use custom-built .NET Framework 4.0 classes to connect an ASP.NET Web application to a SQL Server 2012 database.

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