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Working with Data Using Entity Framework Core
This chapter is about reading from and writing to relational data stores, such as SQLite and SQL Server, by using the object-to-data store mapping technology named Entity Framework Core (EF Core).
This chapter will cover the following topics:
- Understanding modern databases
- Setting up EF Core in a .NET project
- Defining EF Core models
- Querying EF Core models
- Loading and tracking patterns with EF Core
- Modifying data with EF Core
Understanding modern databases
Two of the most common places to store data are in a Relational Database Management System (RDBMS), such as SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and SQLite, or in a NoSQL database, such as Azure Cosmos DB, Redis, MongoDB, and Apache Cassandra.
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