The latter uses two different connections and so isn't maxing your pool, but it's significantly slower (a lot of times the biggest overhead in a database call is the connection). <br><br>ADO.Net ...

Take advantage of connection resiliency in EF Core to detect errors and retry commands and enable your ASP.NET Core application to overcome transient faults. A high-quality application must be stable, ...

Leverage ADO.Net's ability to work in disconnected mode to enable your application to stay disconnected to the database, conserve the system resources, and reduce the network traffic Microsoft’s ...