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By default, Entity Framework Core stores and retrieves .NET enumerations as their underlying integer values for SQL databases, primarily for performance and storage optimization reasons. Nevertheless, if there is a requirement to store enums within your data model as strings at the database level, it is important to have a suitable way to configure this…