i'm confused..

[koolinoor]

is that supposed to be like a new System.Data.SqlClient ? or why does it share the same namespace,
except have a tons of unnecessary assemblies attached to it?

congrats!

[taspeotis]

Not sure the premise of this question is correct - it's a different namespace. This is Microsoft.Data.SqlClient which is not shared with System.Data.SqlClient by virtue of being different.

The dependencies are pretty normal for a Microsoft package, pulling in other Microsoft packages.

There's a discussion about this library (Microsoft.Data.SqlClient) and its predecessor (System.Data.SqlClient) and a successor of sorts here. You can also dig up the blog posts announcing Microsoft.Data.SqlClient for more info about its purpose.

[ErikEJ]

System.Data.SqlClient also had many dependencies, but they were part of .NET Framework installed on every Windows machine.

[koolinoor]

cut the crap, please.. you seriously trying to reason that you need Azure.Identity for a connection between the CLR and MSSQL?

[ErikEJ]

Please adhere to the code of conduct.

[JRahnama]

@koolinoor Please respect other users. I am closing this as this is not an issue. You can open a discussion in our discussion area,

[roji]

Seems like this is largely a duplicate of #1108

[ajcvickers]

@koolinoor Your comment has been deleted since it does not adhere to the code of conduct for this repo.