Understand ADO.NET Data Provider for SQL Server in ASP.NET Core

At times you may want to skip using EF Core and delve into the underlying data provider yourself. It would be helpful for beginners to understand how EF Core might be working behind the curtains of easy to use ORM. To that end this article gives you a brief overview of the ADO.NET data provider for SQL Server.

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