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What's an ORM? - Entity Framework Tutorial
From the course: Learning Entity Framework Core
What's an ORM?
- [Instructor] Now before discussing entity framework, let's step back a bit and talk about databases and object relational mappers, ORMs. Now ideally you're already familiar with databases, which has schemas and tables, queries, they conduct reports, views, et cetera. Now to improve the way that we work with database content, object-relational mapping software was created. It's also sometimes referred to as object-relational mappers and they're essentially a tool that's used to manage and convert database data from an object-oriented programming perspective. So in other worlds, database tables can be treated as classes and their fields can be treated as properties. And this ultimately eliminates the need to write a lot of tedious code. Now Microsoft's answer to object-relational mapping software is Entity Framework. And they define Entity Framework as an object-relational mapping framework that enables developers to work with relational data as domain-specific objects, eliminating…
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