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There are two ways to do inheritance mapping in EF Core: Let’s say we have a database with employees. All employees have an id and a name. There are currently two types of employees: programmers and drivers. Programmers have a language (ex: C#), and drivers have a car (ex: Honda). We can model this with … Read more
To add a computed column in EF Core, override DbContext.OnModelCreating() and specify the computed column using ModelBuilder, like this: In this article, I’ll show a full example of adding a computed column and then show how to specify that the computed column should be persisted. Example of adding a computed column Let’s say we have … Read more
A composite primary key is a primary key that contains more than one column. In EF Core, when you are creating (or modifying) a table, you can, you can use the [Key] attribute to create primary key with one column. To create a composite primary key with multiple columns, you have to override DbContext.OnModelCreating() and … Read more
In this article, I’ll show how to add indexes using EF Core. If you’re not sure about why you would need indexes, take a look at this article explaining how indexes greatly improve query performance. Add an index with a single column The simplest way to add an index is to by adding the [Index] … Read more
In this article, I’ll show how to add a foreign key using EF Core. Then I’ll show how foreign keys affect inserts and deletes. How to add a foreign key A Show has one or more Episodes. In this section, I’ll show how to link these two tables together to enforce the 1-to-many relationship. In … Read more