In EF Core versions prior to 7.0, UTF-8 columns do not work out-of-the-box with EF Core's SQL Server provider. To map a string property to a varchar(x) column, the Fluent or Data Annotation API is ...

SQL Server 2012 introduced two innovations targeted for data warehousing workloads: column store indexes and batch (vectorized) processing mode. Together they greatly improve performance of typical ...