.NET Data Community Standup - Size doesn't matter: Smaller features in EF8

In addition to the big features such as primitive collections and complex types, EF8 contains many smaller features and minor improvements. In this session, Arthur and Shay from the EF team will take a look at a few of these smaller features, including:

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- Sentinels to control when the database generates a value
- Massive performance improvements for IN and EXISTS in LINQ queries
- DateOnly/TimeOnly on SQL Server
- Raw SQL queries for unmapped types
- More flexible ExecuteUpdate
- Numeric SQL rowversion properties
- Cleaner SQL through parentheses elimination

Chapters:
00:00 Countdown begins
02:30 Welcome to the .NET Data Community Standup
03:36 State of the Unicorn
05:58 7 small feature updates
09:48 Demo
01:22:23 Wrap


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[petropzqi]

These guys are my heroes. Love the work and how you present it. Thank you

[ICanSeeSharp]

Nice improvements! 😍😍
Big thanks and keep up the great work 💚💛❤

[Deathflame]

About the default values, relying on the database to set default values for entities seems leaking the domain rules to the infrastructure.
For example, if a User.Level should be Hidden by default, I think it should be set in the class itself (in the get propert with a nullable field or in a factory constructor or other ways) but not in the persistence.

What do you think?
Thank you

[abdullahrexha]

what is the link to the code examples? thnx

[HikingUtah]

Wow, that's a real pain for bool columns. Takes some work to understand too.

[teckyify]

Could you provide chapters or timestamps? I'm not interested in every single point.