CREATE FUNCTION dbo.checkPerson(@data XML)
RETURNS BIT WITH SCHEMABINDING AS
BEGIN
   RETURN @data.exist('/people/person')
END
GO

CREATE TABLE tblXML
(
id INT PRIMARY KEY,
doc XML CHECK(dbo.checkPerson(doc)=1)  
)
GO

 INSERT INTO tblXML (id,  doc) VALUES
(
 1, '<people><person name="Vahid"/></people>'
)

INSERT INTO tblXML (id,  doc) VALUES
(
 2, '<people><emp name="Vahid"/></people>'
)

 The INSERT statement conflicted with the CHECK constraint "CK__tblXML__doc__060DEAE8".
The conflict occurred in database "testdb", table "dbo.tblXML", column 'doc'.
The statement has been terminated.

 CREATE TABLE xml_tab
(
 id INT IDENTITY PRIMARY KEY,
 xml_col  XML
)

 INSERT INTO xml_tab
VALUES ('<people><person name="Vahid"/></people>')
INSERT INTO xml_tab
VALUES ('<people><person name="Farid"/></people>')

 CREATE FUNCTION getIdValue(@doc XML)
RETURNS int WITH SCHEMABINDING AS
BEGIN
  RETURN @doc.value('/*[1]/@Id', 'int')
END

 CREATE TABLE docs_tab
(
id INT PRIMARY KEY,
doc XML,
CONSTRAINT id_chk CHECK(dbo.getIdValue(doc)=id)  
)

 INSERT INTO docs_tab (id,  doc) VALUES
(
 1, '<Invoice Id="1"/>'
)

INSERT INTO docs_tab (id,  doc) VALUES
(
 2, '<Invoice Id="1"/>'
)

 The INSERT statement conflicted with the CHECK constraint "id_chk".
The conflict occurred in database "testdb", table "dbo.docs_tab".
The statement has been terminated.

 CREATE TABLE Invoices
(
 doc XML,
 id AS dbo.getIdValue(doc) PERSISTED PRIMARY KEY
)

 INSERT INTO Invoices VALUES
(
 '<Invoice Id="1"/>'
)
INSERT INTO Invoices VALUES
(
 '<Invoice Id="1"/>'
)

 Violation of PRIMARY KEY constraint 'PK__Invoices__3213E83F145C0A3F'.
Cannot insert duplicate key in object 'dbo.Invoices'. The duplicate key value is (1).
The statement has been terminated.

 DECLARE @doc XML
SET @doc = '<foo bar="baz" />'
SELECT @doc.query('/foo/@bar')

 XQuery [query()]: Attribute may not appear outside of an element

 DECLARE @doc XML
SET @doc = '<foo bar="baz" />'
SELECT @doc.query('data(/foo/@bar)')

 DECLARE @x XML
SET @x = '<x>hello<y>world</y></x><x>again</x>'
SELECT @x.query('data(/*)')

 DECLARE @x XML
SET @x = '<x>hello<y>world</y></x><x>again</x>'
SELECT @x.query('string(/*)')

 XQuery [query()]: 'string()' requires a singleton (or empty sequence), found operand of type 'element(*,xdt:untyped) *'

 SELECT @x.query('string(/*[1])')

 SELECT @x.query('string(/)')

 DECLARE @x XML = '<age>12</age>'
SELECT @x.query('string(/age[1])')

 CREATE XML SCHEMA COLLECTION root_el AS
'<xs:schema xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
                  targetNamespace="urn:geo">
      <xs:element name="Root" type="xs:string" />    
</xs:schema>
'
GO

 DECLARE @xmlDoc XML
SET @xmlDoc = '<g:Root xmlns:g="urn:geo">datadata...</g:Root>'
SELECT @xmlDoc.query('
declare namespace g="urn:geo";
/g:Root/text()
')

 DECLARE @xmlDoc XML(root_el)
SET @xmlDoc = '<g:Root xmlns:g="urn:geo">datadata...</g:Root>'
SELECT @xmlDoc.query('
declare namespace g="urn:geo";
/g:Root[1]/text()
')

 XQuery [query()]: 'text()' is not supported on simple typed or 'http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#anyType'
elements, found 'element(g{urn:geo}:Root,xs:string) *'.

 DECLARE @xmlDoc XML(root_el)
SET @xmlDoc = '<g:Root xmlns:g="urn:geo">datadata...</g:Root>'
SELECT @xmlDoc.query('
declare namespace g="urn:geo";
data(/g:Root[1])
')

data(/age/text())

    public class Bill
    {
        public int Id { set; get; }
        public string Name { set; get; }

        public virtual ICollection<Transaction> Transactions { set; get; }
    }

    public class Transaction
    {
        public int Id { set; get; }
        public DateTime AddDate { set; get; }
        public int Amount { set; get; }

        [ForeignKey("BillId")]
        public virtual Bill Bill { set; get; }
        public int BillId { set; get; }
    }

    public class MyContext : DbContext
    {
        public DbSet<Bill> Bills { get; set; }
        public DbSet<Transaction> Transactions { get; set; }
    }

    public class Configuration : DbMigrationsConfiguration<MyContext>
    {
        public Configuration()
        {
            AutomaticMigrationsEnabled = true;
            AutomaticMigrationDataLossAllowed = true;
        }

        protected override void Seed(MyContext context)
        {
            var bill1 = new Bill { Name = "bill-1" };
            context.Bills.Add(bill1);

            for (int i = 0; i < 11; i++)
            {
                context.Transactions.Add(new Transaction
                {
                    AddDate = DateTime.Now.AddDays(-i),
                    Amount = 1000000000 + i,
                    Bill = bill1
                });
            }
            base.Seed(context);
        }
    }

    public static class Test
    {
        public static void RunTests()
        {
            Database.SetInitializer(new MigrateDatabaseToLatestVersion<MyContext, Configuration>());
            using (var context = new MyContext())
            {
                var sum = context.Transactions.Sum(x => x.Amount);
                Console.WriteLine(sum);
            }
        }
    }

SELECT 
         [GroupBy1].[A1] AS [C1]
         FROM ( SELECT 
                    SUM([Extent1].[Amount]) AS [A1]
                    FROM [dbo].[Transactions] AS [Extent1]
                    )  AS [GroupBy1]

 Arithmetic overflow error converting expression to data type int.

var sum2 = context.Transactions.Sum(x => (Int64)x.Amount);

SELECT 
      [GroupBy1].[A1] AS [C1]
         FROM ( SELECT 
                    SUM( CAST( [Extent1].[Amount] AS bigint)) AS [A1]
                    FROM [dbo].[Transactions] AS [Extent1]
               )  AS [GroupBy1]                  

var date = DateTime.Now.AddDays(10);
var sum3 = context.Transactions
                  .Where(x => x.AddDate > date)  
                  .Sum(x => (Int64)x.Amount);               

SELECT 
     [GroupBy1].[A1] AS [C1]
        FROM ( SELECT 
                    SUM( CAST( [Extent1].[Amount] AS bigint)) AS [A1]
                    FROM [dbo].[Transactions] AS [Extent1]
                    WHERE [Extent1].[AddDate] > @p__linq__0
              )  AS [GroupBy1]

The cast to value type 'Int64' failed because the materialized value is null.
Either the result type's generic parameter or the query must use a nullable type.

var date = DateTime.Now.AddDays(10);
var sum3 = context.Transactions
                  .Where(x => x.AddDate > date)
                  .Sum(x => (Int64?)x.Amount) ?? 0;

 var sum4 = context.Bills.First().Transactions.Sum(x => (Int64?)x.Amount) ?? 0;

SELECT 
     [Extent1].[Id] AS [Id], 
     [Extent1].[AddDate] AS [AddDate], 
     [Extent1].[Amount] AS [Amount], 
     [Extent1].[BillId] AS [BillId]
   FROM [dbo].[Transactions] AS [Extent1]
   WHERE [Extent1].[BillId] = @EntityKeyValue1

var entry = context.Bills.First();
var sum5 = context.Entry(entry).Collection(x => x.Transactions).Query().Sum(x => (Int64?)x.Amount) ?? 0;

SELECT 
    [GroupBy1].[A1] AS [C1]
     FROM ( SELECT 
               SUM( CAST( [Extent1].[Amount] AS bigint)) AS [A1]
                   FROM [dbo].[Transactions] AS [Extent1]
                    WHERE [Extent1].[BillId] = @EntityKeyValue1
            )  AS [GroupBy1]                  

services.AddAuthentication(options =>
{
   // for both windows and anonymous authentication
   //options.DefaultChallengeScheme = IISDefaults.AuthenticationScheme; // Use it for IIS
   options.DefaultChallengeScheme = HttpSysDefaults.AuthenticationScheme; // Use it for HttpSys
   options.DefaultAuthenticateScheme = HttpSysDefaults.AuthenticationScheme; // Use it for HttpSys
});

A .NET guideline specifies that an application should never throw a NullReferenceException. However, many applications and libraries do. The NullReferenceException is the most common exception happening. That’s why C# 8 tries to get rid of it. With C# 8, reference types are not null be default. This is a big change, and a great feature. However, what about all the legacy code? Can old libraries be used with C# 8 applications, and can C# 7 applications make use of C# 8 libraries?

This article demonstrates how C# 8 allows mixing old and new assemblies. 

AspNetCoreRateLimit is an ASP.NET Core rate limiting solution designed to control the rate of requests that clients can make to a Web API or MVC app based on IP address or client ID. The AspNetCoreRateLimit package contains an IpRateLimitMiddleware and a ClientRateLimitMiddleware, with each middleware you can set multiple limits for different scenarios like allowing an IP or Client to make a maximum number of calls in a time interval like per second, 15 minutes, etc. You can define these limits to address all requests made to an API or you can scope the limits to each API URL or HTTP verb and path.