Simply add a NuGet dependency on Microsoft.Data.SqlClient and update any using references or ... aforementioned merging of the SQL Server .NET Framework and .NET Core code bases, the engineering ...

Microsoft has ... you cannot get in T-SQL. We encourage developers to use the .NET 5 C# Language Extension and build on it." By studying the publicly documented Extensibility Framework API for SQL ...

While SQL Server Data Tools doesn’t quite that level, it gets very close. The holy grail of database development is the ability to treat database objects as if they were normal source code.