Well Entity Framework 7 is meant to have support for non-relational data sources [1] so ... at some point you probably won't have to write Transact-SQL for deal

Well Entity Framework 7 is meant to have support for non-relational data sources [1] so ... at some point you probably won't have to write Transact-SQL for dealing with JSON data in your cookie-cutter OLAP applications written with .NET. [1] https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/dn890367.aspx https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/dn890367.aspx