Starting with .NET Core 3.0 Preview 7, the .NET Core SDK installer will remove previous patch versions after a successful installation. This means that if you have 3.0 Preview 5 and Preview 7 on a machine then install Preview 7, only Preview 7 will remain once the process is complete. 

Announcing SignalR 2.2.2 (Preview 1) 

Here are a couple of the most relevant improvements you may want to verify:

• Work on the EF Core in-memory provider was finished and most query features should now be working (the majority of it went into RC1)
• EF Core’s compilation performance was improved significantly for complex queries 

This documentation is for EF Core. For EF6.x and earlier release see http://msdn.com/data/ef

https://docs.efproject.net/en/latest/index.html  

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What Can Query Plan Tell? 

In this short video Rowan takes us through a different approach to generating keys in Entity Framework 7 using sequences. This approach is interesting in cases of large INSERT batches primarily because keys are all fetched beforehand.

        protected override void Dispose(bool disposing)
        {
            if (disposing)
            {
                if (this.wrappedConnection != null)
                    this.wrappedConnection.Dispose();
            }

            base.Dispose(disposing);
        }

using System;
using System.Configuration;
using System.Data;
using System.Data.Common;
using System.Data.Entity;
using System.Data.Entity.Infrastructure;
using System.Data.Entity.Migrations;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.Linq;
using EFTracingProvider;

namespace Sample
{
    public class Person
    {
        public int Id { get; set; }
        public string Name { get; set; }
    }

    public class Configuration : DbMigrationsConfiguration<MyContext>
    {
        public Configuration()
        {
            var className = this.ContextType.FullName;
            var connectionStringData = ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings[className];
            if (connectionStringData == null)
                throw new InvalidOperationException(string.Format("ConnectionStrings[{0}] not found.", className));

            TargetDatabase = new DbConnectionInfo(connectionStringData.ConnectionString, connectionStringData.ProviderName);
            AutomaticMigrationsEnabled = true;
            AutomaticMigrationDataLossAllowed = true;
        }

        protected override void Seed(MyContext context)
        {
            for (int i = 0; i < 7; i++)
                context.Users.Add(new Person { Name = "name " + i });

            base.Seed(context);
        }
    }

    public class MyContext : MyLoggedContext
    {
        public DbSet<Person> Users { get; set; }
    }

    public abstract class MyLoggedContext : DbContext
    {
        protected MyLoggedContext()
            : base(existingConnection: createConnection(), contextOwnsConnection: true)
        {
            var ctx = ((IObjectContextAdapter)this).ObjectContext;
            ctx.GetTracingConnection().CommandExecuting += (s, e) =>
            {
                Console.WriteLine("{0}\n", e.ToTraceString());
            };
        }

        private static DbConnection createConnection()
        {
            var st = new StackTrace();
            var sf = st.GetFrame(2); // Get the derived class Type in a base class static method
            var className = sf.GetMethod().DeclaringType.FullName;
            
            var connectionStringData = ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings[className];
            if (connectionStringData == null)
                throw new InvalidOperationException(string.Format("ConnectionStrings[{0}] not found.", className));

            if (!isEFTracingProviderRegistered())
                EFTracingProviderConfiguration.RegisterProvider();

            EFTracingProviderConfiguration.LogToFile = "log.sql";
            var wrapperConnectionString =
                string.Format(@"wrappedProvider={0};{1}", connectionStringData.ProviderName, connectionStringData.ConnectionString);
            return new EFTracingConnection { ConnectionString = wrapperConnectionString };
        }

        private static bool isEFTracingProviderRegistered()
        {
            var data = (DataSet)ConfigurationManager.GetSection("system.data");
            var providerFactories = data.Tables["DbProviderFactories"];
            return providerFactories.Rows.Cast<DataRow>()
                                         .Select(row => (string)row.ItemArray[1])
                                         .Any(invariantName => invariantName == "EF Tracing Data Provider");
        }
    }

    public static class Test
    {
        public static void RunTests()
        {
            Database.SetInitializer(new MigrateDatabaseToLatestVersion<MyContext, Configuration>());
            using (var ctx = new MyContext())
            {
                var users = ctx.Users.AsEnumerable();
                if (users.Any())
                {
                    foreach (var user in users)
                    {
                        Console.WriteLine(user.Name);
                    }
                }

                var rnd = new Random();
                var user1 = ctx.Users.Find(1);
                user1.Name = "test user " + rnd.Next();
                ctx.SaveChanges();
            }

        }
    }
}

 public class MyContext : MyLoggedContext

insert [dbo].[People]([Name])
values (@0)
select [Id]
from [dbo].[People]
where @@ROWCOUNT > 0 and [Id] = scope_identity()
-- @0 (dbtype=String, size=-1, direction=Input) = "name 0"

insert [dbo].[People]([Name])
values (@0)
select [Id]
from [dbo].[People]
where @@ROWCOUNT > 0 and [Id] = scope_identity()
-- @0 (dbtype=String, size=-1, direction=Input) = "name 1"

insert [dbo].[People]([Name])
values (@0)
select [Id]
from [dbo].[People]
where @@ROWCOUNT > 0 and [Id] = scope_identity()
-- @0 (dbtype=String, size=-1, direction=Input) = "name 2"

insert [dbo].[People]([Name])
values (@0)
select [Id]
from [dbo].[People]
where @@ROWCOUNT > 0 and [Id] = scope_identity()
-- @0 (dbtype=String, size=-1, direction=Input) = "name 3"

insert [dbo].[People]([Name])
values (@0)
select [Id]
from [dbo].[People]
where @@ROWCOUNT > 0 and [Id] = scope_identity()
-- @0 (dbtype=String, size=-1, direction=Input) = "name 4"

insert [dbo].[People]([Name])
values (@0)
select [Id]
from [dbo].[People]
where @@ROWCOUNT > 0 and [Id] = scope_identity()
-- @0 (dbtype=String, size=-1, direction=Input) = "name 5"

insert [dbo].[People]([Name])
values (@0)
select [Id]
from [dbo].[People]
where @@ROWCOUNT > 0 and [Id] = scope_identity()
-- @0 (dbtype=String, size=-1, direction=Input) = "name 6"

SELECT
[Extent1].[Id] AS [Id],
[Extent1].[Name] AS [Name]
FROM [dbo].[People] AS [Extent1]

SELECT
[Extent1].[Id] AS [Id],
[Extent1].[Name] AS [Name]
FROM [dbo].[People] AS [Extent1]

name 0
name 1
name 2
name 3
name 4
name 5
name 6

update [dbo].[People]
set [Name] = @0
where ([Id] = @1)
-- @0 (dbtype=String, size=-1, direction=Input) = "test user 1355460609"

-- @1 (dbtype=Int32, size=0, direction=Input) = 1