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Transfer SQL Server Database data to MySQL Database using .NET Core – Part 2

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This is in continuation of the Part-1 solution to transfer SQL Server Database data to MySQL Database using .NET Core. If you have not read the first post, please go through it. To give you an overview, the part-1 solution gets all the SQL server database data and creates a serialized and compressed version of a dataset. The part-2 or final solution downloads the compressed file and populates the MySQL database. Let’s see how this is achieved.
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Transfer SQL Server Database data to MySQL Database using .NET Core – Part 1

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Transferring one database data to other databases is not challenging when source and destination database type is same. It becomes a nightmare when source and destination database types are different. To save you from this nightmare, there are plenty of products available for data transfer between different types of databases. But, these tools come with a very high price. I also got into a similar problem and thought of buying one of the products. As you know in a typical software company, buying a licensed product is a time-taking process that requires lots of approvals and justifications. While the process was on, an idea struck and got the solution to transfer SQL Server Database data to MySQL Database using .NET Core. Read More

MSSQL-cli – A new way to interact with SQL Server

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Microsoft recently released a new tool to interact with SQL Server called MSSQL-cli. It’s an interactive command line interface to query SQL server database. Since the release of .NET Core, Microsoft is continuously releasing different cross-platform tools to reach out more developers. At the time of writing this post, the release is in public preview stage. This post talks about installing this tool and then show how to use this tool to query your SQL Server database. Read More

Use SQL Server Sequence in Entity Framework Core to Create Primary Key

Use SQL Server Sequence in Entity Framework Core to Create Primary Key

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Entity Framework doesn’t support Sequence out of the box. However, there are ways to use it. But the good news is, Entity Framework Core supports Sequence out of the box. I also mentioned in my earlier post Quick summary of what’s new in Entity Framework Core 1.0. So in this post, let’s find out how to use SQL Server Sequence in Entity Framework Core to create primary key.
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