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prql
PRQL is a modern language for transforming data — a simple, powerful, pipelined SQL replacement
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Entity Framework
EF Core is a modern object-database mapper for .NET. It supports LINQ queries, change tracking, updates, and schema migrations.
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SaaSHub
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EFCore.BulkExtensions
Entity Framework EF Core efcore Bulk Batch Extensions with BulkCopy in .Net for Insert Update Delete Read (CRUD), Truncate and SaveChanges operations on SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite, Oracle
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Norm.net
Norm.net is an innovative and high-performance Database Access for .NET Standard 2.1 and higher
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Dapper
Discontinued Dapper - a simple object mapper for .Net [Moved to: https://github.com/DapperLib/Dapper] (by StackExchange)
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SqlSugar
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Dapper Extensions
Dapper Extensions is a small library that complements Dapper by adding basic CRUD operations (Get, Insert, Update, Delete) for your POCOs. For more advanced querying scenarios, Dapper Extensions provides a predicate system. The goal of this library is to keep your POCOs pure by not requiring any attributes or base class inheritance.
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SaaSHub
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Google's New Pipe Syntax in SQL
There is https://github.com/linq2db/linq2db which is LINQ to SQL reincarnated.
Of course there's EF Core too.
- Upserting complex data models from an API into EF Core entities
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LiteDB: A .NET embedded NoSQL database
Before checking this out, people might want to take a look through the issues and pull requests of which there are 500+ and 50+ respectively [1]. I was really optimistic about this project and it was headed in a great direction, but it's not in a production ready state, and it seems that the main guy behind it has decided to move onto other things. It's been about a year since there was any significant activity.
I just mention this because a lot of these little issues might only become more apparent after integrating the db into your project and so it can be a bit annoying. I ended up swapping to Linq2DB [1]. It's something, more or less, similar offering an ORM/LINQ type system as well as the ability to also use direct SQL if desired. But the neat thing is that it also uses a standardized API for the LINQ query language, so you can do things like swap from SQLite to PostgreSQL in one* line of code, so long as you're not using any provider specific extensions.
[1] - https://github.com/mbdavid/LiteDB
[2] - https://github.com/linq2db/linq2db
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Flyweight: An ORM for SQLite
I had a positive experience with Linq2db? https://github.com/linq2db/linq2db
I mention because I had something of the opposite experience with it. It not only ended up yielding the correct queries, but I saw a significant increase in performance. And the neat thing about it, beyond ORM and linq-to-sql, is a common interface amongst providers - so you can do things like swap from SQLite to Postgres with 1 line* of code, so long as you're not using provider specific extensions.
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.NET 6 - ORM vs Stored Procedures - Azure Functions + SQL Databases
Temporary tables are covered by linq2db. But better to show Stored Proc maybe your final query just needs several CTE which also supported by linq2db.
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LINQ to SQL
check this out as an alternative... https://github.com/linq2db/linq2db
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Expression trees for LINQ
My learning path was supporting linq2db, not short way. StackOverflow was original source to find something like, how to do if operator in Expression Tree, how to throw exception in Expression Tree, how to build dynamic filter, ect.
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Dapper is it worth using now with the improvements in EF in dotnet 6?
Checkout linq2db No need for Dapper or EF with this library. I wouldn't want to miss it.
- What is the best PostgreSQL ORM tool for use in a .NET Framework 4.7 application?
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SchemaTypist: Entity generator for Dapper and SqlKata
Why not linq2db? Faster than Dapper and has LINQ support.
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The primary programming language of LINQ to DB is C#.
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