I originally came across Stowage on the blog aggregator Awesome .NET. Its github repo has a description which reads “Stowage is a bloat-free .NET cloud storage kit that supports at minimum THE major cloud providers.” That caught my attention because I’d been contemplating how best …
Last year I saw a reference to LiteDB on Awesome .NET. It described itself as “An embedded NoSQL database for .NET”. That drew my attention. A short examination of their documents further peaked my interest. LiteDB describes its target scenarios in the Where to use section of the GitHub …
Background # I’ve found myself trying to quantify differences between available data store options in .NET many times over the last decade. Historically I’ve performed such comparisons using a simple Console Application project in Visual Studio. I’d write test methods to provide …
Abstract Currently Azure SQL allows you to configure your database in one of three service tiers, i.e. Basic, Standard and Premium. The service tiers each allow you to select one of several performance levels. In all you have eight possible performance levels; Basic, S0, S1, S2, S3, P1, P2, P3. The …
Getting my feet wet with Azure SQL tonight and I just created my first ever database on the platform. The first step was to create a new server instance since I did not yet have a hosting server. The second page of the creation prompts you to provide credentials for the new server. With no …
I have a Web API project which leverages an SQL database through Entity Framework. Pretty standard Microsoft technology stacks I’ve been using for years. When using EF I’ve historically disabled lazy loading and proxy generation due to lack of need for those features. This project I left …