... Microsoftintroduced in SQL Server 2008.About the authorDon Kiely, MVP , MCSD, is a technology consultant who devel-ops secure desktop and web applications using tools includ-ing SQL Server, VB, ... EntityFramework has its own dialect of SQL (Entity SQL or ESQL) and can use ESQLstatements or LINQ queries to access data. Although neither framework usesvanilla T -SQL as its query language, ... SQL are T -SQL code generators(EF is not database-specific, but I’m only talking about SQL Server here); therefore,another way to address performance is to examine the generated T -SQL ...