writing a simple program which uses a database with read and write | just as an exercise

Hi everyone,

I've been learning C# as my main programming language for nearly a year now. I'm also taught to program in C++ at university.

I can write calculation-based and array-related simple programs which don't store any data and I've learned filestream to write to a file both in C# and C++. But I obviously need to learn to read and write from a database. I'd like to be an ASP.NET developer but I lack lots of knowledge. I learned to write basic web forms app and I learned about View and Controller for MVC but as for Model, I got confused. Because I don't know how to use ADO.NET and meanwhile I see they are using EntityFramework 6 code-first out there. I need to know how I should start. should I start with something like SQL CE or Access? should I go for entityframework code-first? should forget about SQL and try to learn Oracle? should I learn SQLite as it doesn't require a server. I should note that I'm programming on my own personal computer and I might not be able to run SQL Server base program on it. I'm using Visual Studio 2013.I had learned many years ago to make a database using MS Access and I also know a bit to write a query using T-SQL.

What should I do? What resources do you recommend?

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S.A.T