A .Net Framework 4.8 program referencing a .Net Standard 2.0 using EFCore.Sqlite 3.1 can't simply run (on Any CPU/X64/X86) with an exception shown: System.TypeInitializationException: The type ...

SQLite (and most databases) store data in disk-block-sized pages, usually 4KB, which helps make reads and writes as fast as possible. Normally developers interact with databases on the "schema level" ...

Microsoft has long offered a compact alternative to the mainstream editions of SQL Server, but the SQL Server Compact Edition appears to be losing steam. It's not particularly compact and has lost ...

When developing database-driven .NET and .NET Core, regardless of the database we intend to deploy in the end, we will often want to work with a database engine that is lightweight and fast, in order ...