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.

That doesn't work well for us because we use Oracle, not SQL Server, and we're not using any kind of single sign-on to authenticate with Oracle.

Take advantage of connection resiliency in EF Core to detect errors and retry commands and enable your ASP.NET Core application to overcome transient faults.