Entity Framework Migrations Explained

Published: 04 May 2022
on channel: dotnet
39,261
744

The week, James is joined by Brice Lambson, Senior Software Engineer on the Entity Framework team to talk in depth about migrations for your database. When do you need them? How do you run them? How do you maintain them in the long run? Brice breaks it all down.

00:00 - Intro & Brice from the EF Core team
01:30 - What are Database Schema Migrations?
03:40 - Why do I need migrations?
05:20 - Code first or database first?
08:30 - Getting started with EF Core
12:30 - Our first EF Core migration
19:40 - What is in a migration?
22:30 - Remove migrations & required fields
26:00 - Update migrations
32:11 - Running migrations in production
35:20 - Wrap-up, tips & tricks

Links:
EF Docs- https://docs.microsoft.com/ef
EF Core on MS Learn - https://docs.microsoft.com/learn/modu...
SQLite Toolbox - https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/...
DbUp - https://dbup.readthedocs.io
Fluent Migrator - https://fluentmigrator.github.io

#efcore #entityframework #dotnet

🙋‍♀️🙋‍♂️ Get your questions answered on the Microsoft Q&A for .NET: https://aka.ms/dotnet-qa

🏫 Learn C#, F#, and .NET with free self-guided learning from Microsoft Learn: https://aka.ms/learndotnet


On this page of the site you can watch the video online Entity Framework Migrations Explained with a duration of hours minute second in good quality, which was uploaded by the user dotnet 04 May 2022, share the link with friends and acquaintances, this video has already been watched 39,261 times on youtube and it was liked by 744 viewers. Enjoy your viewing!