It's truly unfortunate that ASP.NET made it so very easy to do. You should also check out ASP.NET MVC3; once you really get your head around it, the WebForms model becomes much more obviously broken.

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.