This blogpost explains how to connect .NET Core Console application to SQL server database and read table data. You will not be using the Entity framework for this.

SimpleC-DatabaseDemo A Simple C# Database Demo Using Windows Forms This simple demo shows you how to open a connection and query a database using Visual C#. It will grab all the records from the ...

Windows 7 includes an ODBC manager that lets you connect from your desktop to a SQL server. You create a data source name (DSN) to save database setup information, so you can open a connection to ...