Tag: sql-server

EF Core 11 Preview 3 removes redundant to-one joins from split queries and drops unneeded ORDER BY keys. One reported scenario got 29% faster, another 22%. Here is what the SQL now looks like.

EF Core 11 Preview 2 supports SQL Server 2025 VECTOR_SEARCH() and DiskANN vector indexes directly from LINQ. Here is how to set up the index, run approximate queries, and what changes from the EF Core 10 VectorDistance approach.