Last year, we made .NET Core available as open source software, and we received a lot of enthusiastic contributions from the community. To complement the .NET Frameworks Open Source initiatives Azure SQL Database Elastic Database Client Library is now available as well as open source software on GitHub.

What is the elastic database client library?

The elastic database client library simplifies the creation of ADO.NET applications that implement and use the pattern known as database sharding in Azure SQL Database. Sharding is a technique used for physically partitioning data across a number of identically structured databases. This library simplifies the creation and management of shards to support the growing and shrinking data storage demands of an application. For detailed information about the elastic database client libraries, please view the documentation map.

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