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Mastering Entity Framework Core 2.0

You're reading from   Mastering Entity Framework Core 2.0 Dive into entities, relationships, querying, performance optimization, and more, to learn efficient data-driven development

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788294133
Length 386 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Prabhakaran Anbazhagan Prabhakaran Anbazhagan
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Kickstart - Introduction to Entity Framework Core 2. The Other Way Around – Database First Approach FREE CHAPTER 3. Relationships – Terminology and Conventions 4. Building Relationships – Understanding Mapping 5. Know the Validation – Explore Inbuilt Validations 6. Save Yourself – Hack Proof Your Entities 7. Going Raw – Leveraging SQL Queries in LINQ 8. Query Is All We Need – Query Object Pattern 9. Fail Safe Mechanism – Transactions 10. Make It Real – Handling Concurrencies 11. Performance – It's All About Execution Time 12. Isolation – Building a Multi-Tenant Database

Relationships

We could have conventional relationships such as one-to-one, one-to-many, and many-to-many in our entity relationships with ease in EF. Let's explore them in detail in this section. To make it interesting, let's design the database of the blogging system during the course of understanding relationships:

We have seen the proposed design of the blogging system; now let's learn about the relationships and how they could be built using the same design. 

The one-to-one relationship

We need a new entity to explain the one-to-one relationship, as the existing entities don't have the provision to explain the same. So let's pick the Address entity from...

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