In this chapter, we'll be using EF Core and SQL Server. During this chapter, I'll be assuming that you're running a version of SQL Server you've installed locally. There should be no difference (other than the connection string) should you choose to connect to a different SQL Server instance. The download page for SQL Server can be found here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/sql-server/sql-server-downloads.
SQL Server Developer edition is free to use for developing and testing software (like you will be doing here). You can also use SQL Server Express or even a commercial version of SQL Server; however, one of the free versions will be sufficient for this project, as far as it goes.
You will also need a method of testing the API. Postman is one such tool that can be used for this and can be found here: https://www.getpostman.com/.
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