SqlServerValueGenerationStrategy Enum

Definition

Namespace:

Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Metadata

Assembly:

Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.SqlServer.dll

Package:

Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.SqlServer v8.0.0

Defines two strategies to use across the EF Core stack when generating key values from SQL Server database columns.

public enum SqlServerValueGenerationStrategy

type SqlServerValueGenerationStrategy = 

Public Enum SqlServerValueGenerationStrategy

Inheritance

Enum

SqlServerValueGenerationStrategy

Fields

Name	Value	Description
None	0	No SQL Server-specific strategy
SequenceHiLo	1	A sequence-based hi-lo pattern where blocks of IDs are allocated from the server and used client-side for generating keys.
IdentityColumn	2	A pattern that uses a normal SQL Server Identity column in the same way as EF6 and earlier.
Sequence	3	A pattern that uses a database sequence to generate values for the column.

Remarks

See Model building conventions, and Accessing SQL Server and Azure SQL databases with EF Core for more information and examples.