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Go to devart.uservoice.com and share your ideas about Entity Framework support in dotConnect data providers. There you may vote for features that are already in our roadmap, and they will have higher priority in our plans, or you may suggest your own features, and if they will get enough votes, we will include them to the roadmap. Your opinion helps us to make Entity Framework support in dotConnect data providers better and more useful for you.

The following features are on our roadmap:

  Batch Updates

Performing INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE operations in batches will increase performance of data updating.

  Shorter SQL

Possibility to generate shorter SQL statements – without line breaks, indents, and formatting. Query formatting is useful only when monitoring SQL statements, and it increases SQL size.

  EDM Wizard for Oracle – NUMBER mapping customization with NumberMappings

Make EDM Wizard process NUMBER columns according to NumberMappings in the connection string.

  Correct Generation of SQL for SELECT Statement with NULL Parameter

Implement a workaround for Entity Framework bug
( http://stackoverflow.com/questions/682429/how-can-i-query-for-null-values-in-entity-framework )
so that users don’t need to write a more complex LINQ to Entities query to avoid this bug.

  Don’t Insert NULL Values on INSERT

Make NULL insertion generation in INSERT statements optional.

  Oracle 8 Support

Add support for Oracle 8.

  Filter Available Objects in EDM Wizard for Oracle

Let user filter objects, available in the EDM Wizard, by owner/grants/privileges/etc.

  Short Names for Aliases of Tables and Subqueries

  Filter Available Objects in EDM Wizard for Oracle

Let user filter objects, available in the EDM Wizard, by owner/grants/privileges/etc.

  Short Parameter Names in SELECT Queries

  Provider Configurability

Add possibility to configure provider behaviour in a more flexible way.

  EF Code First: Deleting Oracle Schema Objects

  EF Code First: Dynamic Database Creation configurability

Additional options for dynamic database creation:

• whether to create named constraints
• naming rules for primary keys, foreign keys, sequences, triggers
• identity column processing for Oracle database
• specifying tablespace for Oracle database

  EF Code First: Database/Schema Creating and Deleting for MySQL and PostgreSQL

Database/Schema Creating and Deleting for MySQL and PostgreSQL.