Episode

Entity Framework Migrations Explained

with James Montemagno

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.

Chapters

  • 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