Data and EF Core videos
EF Core, SQL Server, migrations, and the long slow realization that the database was never the slow part.
Data and EF Core videos
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Video / data Why Your OnModelCreating Is a Hot Mess (And How to Fix It)
Entity Framework Core configurations become cleaner and testable when persistence rules move into `IEntityTypeConfiguration` classes loaded through assembly scanning.
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Short / data Make Entity Framework Faster with Parameterized Queries
Culture-sensitive lowercasing can break string comparisons, as demonstrated by the Turkish dotless i, while `OrdinalIgnoreCase` remains culture agnostic.
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Short / data You Won't Believe The Hidden Dangers Of Lazy Loading
The REST Client VS Code extension sends REST and GraphQL requests from `.http` or `.rest` files with support for headers, bodies, variables, authentication, and request conversion.
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Short / data EF Core Queries Go BOOM!
Using an appropriate `StringComparison` avoids extra allocations and produces safer case-insensitive string comparisons.
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Video / data Soft Deletes: The Upgrade Your EF Core Needs
The Bongo Cat VS Code extension adds an animated coding companion to the status bar.
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Short / data Slow Entity Framework Core queries? Let’s speed them up!
C# value types are passed by value, so assigning one variable to another creates a copy that can change independently.
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Video / data Don't Make These Entity Framework Core Mistakes
Five Entity Framework Core performance pitfalls cover unnecessary tracking, lazy loading, Cartesian explosion, buffering, and ineffective query caching.
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