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- [Instructor] Let's talk about some of the other database options that are available for Entity Framework Core. They work in the same way as the examples we've shown in previous videos. The Entity Framework Core documentation website is a great resource, and it's updated regularly. As libraries for working with other databases are made available, they're added here. Under Database Providers, we can see the currently available providers and what state they're in. You can see there's a lot of providers here. Some are free, and some are paid. Some are only available for certain versions of Entity Framework Core. For third party providers, like this one here for MySQL, there's a read me that we can navigate to for more information on that particular provider. I'll go back to the list. Let's go look at the IBM database providers. DB2 and Informix have separate libraries for the platform your application will run on. So you have to buy into a different library based on the application's…

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