We are glad to announce the new features that are available in the Entity Framework support in the latest version:
- The MySqlFunctions.Collate method for including the COLLATE operator with a necessary collation in generated SQL is added (MySQL)
- The config.QueryOptions.ComparisonCollation option is implemented to use the COLLATE operator with a required collation when comparing strings in "equal" and "not equal" cases (MySQL)
- The config.QueryOptions.LikeCollation option is added to use the COLLATE operator with a specified collation for .Contains/.StartsWith/.EndsWith methods (MySQL)
- The config.DatabaseScript.Index.Tablespace configuration option is added to specify the tablespace for indexes created via the Code-First approach (Oracle)
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