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Data and EF Core videos

EF Core, SQL Server, migrations, and the long slow realization that the database was never the slow part.

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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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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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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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EF Core Queries Go BOOM!

Using an appropriate `StringComparison` avoids extra allocations and produces safer case-insensitive string comparisons.

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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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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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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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