These libraries extend Entity Framework Core by a few features to make it easier to work with EF and for easier integration testing or to get more performance in some special cases.

Performance

• Temp-Tables
• Bulk-Insert
• Bulk-Update
• Bulk-Upsert (Insert-or-Update)
• Truncate Tables

Features

• Collection Parameters (temp-tables light) (SQL Server)
• Window Functions Support (RowNumber, Sum, Average, Min, Max)
• Nested (virtual) Transactions
• Table Hints (SQL Server)
• Queries accross multiple databases (SQL Server)
• Changing default schema at runtime
• If-Exists / If-Not-Exists checks in migrations (SQL Server)

Convenience

• Extension method LeftJoin
• Migrations: include-columns (SQL Server)
• Migrations: identity column (SQL Server)
• Migrations: (non-)clustered PK (SQL Server)

Integration Testing

• Isolation of tests

Extensibility

• Adding custom IRelationalTypeMappingSourcePlugin
• Adding custom IEvaluatableExpressionFilter