Entity Framework Migrations Explained

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/modules/persist-data-ef-core/?WT.mc_id=friends-0000-jamont SQLite Toolbox - https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ErikEJ.SQLServerCompactSQLiteToolbox 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