A few weeks ago I've published a post regarding DataDirect's new Oracle provider that supports EF. I was able to download DataDirect’s provider only this week, so it will take me a few more days to examine it and post some notes. As for now, I would like to share with you some of the issues in EF we’ve came across migrating from Sql Server to Oracle, using the provider from DevArt . BTW, we haven’t fully migrated to Oracle just yet, our project supports working with both databases using a...
I've received a couple of request to write some of my previous posts in English so that all other 99.7% of the developers community in the world which finds these subjects interesting can understand what I'm writing. The following post is a translation to English of this Hebrew post . When Entity Framework (EF for short) was designed, Microsoft decided the loading of entities will be during run-time in a JIT like mechanism. They achieved this by using the lazy loading technique - access the...