Entity Framework Core provides a new tool for sending raw SQL to your database: FromSql. Initially, FromSql might sound like a replacement for Entity Framework's SqlQuery. However, that's missing the ...

And "Learn ASP.NET Core and SQL by Writing ToDo API" offers more practice with SQL, by giving you step-by-step instructions on how to write an API using SQL Server, T-SQL, and ASP.NET core.

Using WebMatrix with PHP, OData, SQL Azure, Entity Framework and More I've written before about Microsoft's overtures to the PHP community, with the August release of PHP Drivers for SQL Server being ...