Additional, there is a new MS tool available, similar to SSMS which runs also on macOS and on Linux: Download and install SQL Operations Studio (preview) Olaf Helper Blog Xing MVP. In this course, we will teach you how to install SQL Server 2017 Express edition for free on both Mac and Windows. Then will teach how to connect to the SQL Server that you installed using Azure Data Studio.
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Introduction
Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.SqlServer
database provider allows Entity Framework Core to be used with Microsoft SQL Server (including SQL Azure). The provider is maintained as part of the Entity Framework Core Project.How to Use SQL Server Provider
To use SQL Server database provider, the first step is to install Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.SqlServer NuGet package. Let's consider a simple model which contains three entities.
The next step is to create a custom
DbContext
class.In EF Core, the DbContext has a virtual method called onConfiguring which will get called internally by EF Core, and it will also pass in an optionsBuilder instance, and you can use that optionsBuilder to configure options for the DbContext.
The optionsBuilder has UseSqlServer method; it expects a connection string as a parameter. Once you have a model, you can use migrations to create a database.
Run the following command in Package Manager Console.
PM> Add-Migration Initial
This command scaffold a migration to create the initial set of tables for your model. When it is executed successfully, then run the following command.
PM> Update-Database
It will apply the new migration to the database. Now you can use SQL Server database to insert, delete and update data.
Memory-Optimized Tables
Ms Sql Server Express For Mac
Memory-Optimized Tables are a feature of SQL Server where the entire table resides in memory.
- A second copy of the table data is maintained on disk, but only for durability purposes.
- Data in memory-optimized tables is only read from disk during database recovery.
You can specify that the table which mapped to an entity is memory-optimized.