Microsoft announced a new data access driver for SQL Server that should be the path forward for data developers in the era of .NET Core.

Entity Framework Core 8 Preview 2 was released on March 14th. The most notable feature in EF Core 8 preview 2 is support for SQL Server hierarchical data.

In our last article we looked at System.Data in .NET Core 3.0. Now we turn our attention to System.Data.SqlClient, which is the SQL Server driver.

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

Microsoft is readying SQL Server on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and is making .NET Core 1.0 and ASP.NET Core 1.0 generally available today, as promised.