Building .net core on an unsupported Linux platform 

A few highlights for this release include:

• Support for 64-bit identity seed values
• Support for new BCL DateOnly and TimeOnly structs for SQLite
• Uniquify and validate check constraint names
• Pre-convention model configuration 

In this video, you will get to experience bringing SQL and Spark together as a unified data platform running on Kubernetes and learn how:

• Data virtualization integrates data from disparate sources, locations and formats, without replicating or moving the data, to create a single "virtual" data layer

• Data Lake - SQL 2019 provides SQL and Spark query capabilities over a scalable storage, across relational and big data

• Data Mart provides an ability to scale out storage for super-fast performance over big data or data from other external sources 

If you haven’t tried Xamarin yet, now is the time! Read this free white paper from Syncfusion to learn how Xamarin can improve your cross-platform development:

• Deliver apps faster by sharing code across platforms, using one code base and UI.
• Use best-in-class development tools, like Visual Studio.
• Produce genuine native apps that don’t compromise the end user experience.
• And more! 

Rider is a cross-platform .NET IDE: you can use it on Windows, Mac and Linux. Rider lets you develop ASP.NET, .NET Core, .NET Framework, Xamarin and Unity applications. 

 Blazor is the new Microsoft experimental framework that brings C# into any browser without a plug-in. It holds the promise of modern single-page applications, combined with the ability to use C# and its vast base-class library. Blazor takes C# development to a new level. It’s the final piece necessary to make the language a full-stack development tool. It will have all the power of the popular JavaScript frameworks, but based on the familiar languages, APIs and tooling of the Microsoft .NET Framework. 

Entity Signal allows you to connect to Entity Framework through SignalR and get updates on subscribed data in real time. This lowers the number of refreshes done by the user and ultimatly allows you to do more with fewer servers. It is also requires minimal changes, so you can make realtime apps about as easily as you can make standard apps.  

• Fixed a bug that caused Code Analysis to stop running on some C++ projects.
• Fixed a bug in the Schema Compare Tool where adding tables with an empty schema failed but was shown as successful.
• Fixed a TypeScript build issue when the selected language version is lower than the latest installed.
• Fixed a Database unresolved reference to object error.
• Improved performance issues on loading Visual Studio.
• Fixed known issue: No snapshot created for C++ native code in Memory Usage tool in the Diagnostic Tools window while debugging.. 

A simple and lightweight SQL client desktop/terminal with cross database and platform support 

/* Identify SQL Server Collation Settings*/
USE Master
GO
SELECT SERVERPROPERTY('collation') AS SQLServerCollation
GO