I have a table-valued parameter in SQL Server 2012 defined as: CREATE TYPE [dbo].[TVP] AS TABLE ( [Id] [int] NOT NULL, [FieldName] [nvarchar](100) NOT NULL, [Value] [sql_variant] NOT NULL ) I...

It looks like support has recently been added to Entity Framework Core in .NET Core 2.1 (preview) to allow the mapping of SQL_VARIANT columns (https://github.com/aspnet/EntityFrameworkCore/issues/7...

It's typical for a Relational Database Management System to use a specific variant of SQL. For example, SQL Server uses Transact-SQL aka T-SQL. I understand MariaDB is based on MySQL (the RDBMS), a...

I currently have a database table setup as follows (EAV - business reasons are valid): Id - int (PK) Key - unique, varchar(15) Value - varchar(1000) This allows me to add in mixed values into m...