I am working on an ASP.NET MVC project with Entity Framework with code first from database. I get the models for each table in the database. I made some changes in the models, enabled migrations and when I initial the migration I get an error:
There is already an object named 'TableName' in the database."
I tried with update-database -force
but didn't help. The initial migration creates the tables that already exist!
How to make the initial migration apply the changes on the models and not create the tables from beginning?
And what is the best practice to sync changes between database and models in this case?
By default, EF Core keeps track of which migrations have been applied to the database by recording them in a table named __EFMigrationsHistory . For various reasons, you may want to customize this table to better suit your needs.
try to Run the
Add-Migration InitialCreate –IgnoreChanges
command in Package Manager Console. This creates an empty migration with the current model as a snapshot. and then Run the
Update-Database
command in Package Manager Console. This will apply the InitialCreate migration to the database. Since the actual migration doesn’t contain any changes, it will simply add a row to the __MigrationsHistory table indicating that this migration has already been applied.
see this
then change your models and add migration.
another approach is to simply comment all the code on up and down methods
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