EF Core Providers Memory-Optimized Tables

Memory-Optimized Tables are a feature of SQL Server where the entire table resides in memory.

• A second copy of the table data is maintained on disk, but only for durability purposes.
• Data in memory-optimized tables is only read from disk during database recovery, such as after a server restart.

Configuration

You can specify that the table that is mapped to an entity is memory-optimized. When using EF Core to create and maintain a database based on your model, either with migrations or EnsureCreated, a memory-optimized table will be created for these entities.

public class BookStore : DbContext
{
    protected override void OnConfiguring(DbContextOptionsBuilder optionsBuilder)
    {
        optionsBuilder.UseSqlServer(@"Data Source=(localdb)\ProjectsV13;Initial Catalog=BookStoreDb;");
    }

    protected override void OnModelCreating(ModelBuilder modelBuilder)
    {
        modelBuilder.Entity<Author>().IsMemoryOptimized();
    }

    public DbSet<Author> Authors { get; set; }
    public DbSet<Book> Books { get; set; }
}