Specify Azure SQL server edition in EF Core without breaking local development

Question

Entity Framework Core introduced the methods HasServiceTier and HasPerformanceLevel to change the edition of an Azure SQL server. You can use them in OnModelCreating like this:

protected override void OnModelCreating(ModelBuilder modelBuilder)
{
    base.OnModelCreating(modelBuilder);

    modelBuilder.HasServiceTier("Basic");
    modelBuilder.HasPerformanceLevel("Basic");
}

If you use Add-Migration Add-Migration you get a migration like this:

public partial class ChangedDatabaseServiceTierToBasic : Migration
{
    protected override void Up(MigrationBuilder migrationBuilder)
    {
        migrationBuilder.AlterDatabase()
            .Annotation("SqlServer:EditionOptions", "EDITION = 'Basic', SERVICE_OBJECTIVE = 'Basic'");
    }

    protected override void Down(MigrationBuilder migrationBuilder)
    {
        migrationBuilder.AlterDatabase()
            .OldAnnotation("SqlServer:EditionOptions", "EDITION = 'Basic', SERVICE_OBJECTIVE = 'Basic'");
    }
}

This seems to work fine but when I try to apply this migration to a local non-Azure DB for development purposes I get the following error:

Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Migrations[20402]
      Applying migration '20200413102908_ChangedDatabaseServiceTierToBasic'.
Applying migration '20200413102908_ChangedDatabaseServiceTierToBasic'.
fail: Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Database.Command[20102]
      Failed executing DbCommand (3ms) [Parameters=[], CommandType='Text', CommandTimeout='30']
      BEGIN
      DECLARE @db_name NVARCHAR(MAX) = DB_NAME();
      EXEC(N'ALTER DATABASE ' + @db_name + ' MODIFY ( 
      EDITION = ''Basic'', SERVICE_OBJECTIVE = ''Basic'' );');
      END
Failed executing DbCommand (3ms) [Parameters=[], CommandType='Text', CommandTimeout='30']
BEGIN
DECLARE @db_name NVARCHAR(MAX) = DB_NAME();
EXEC(N'ALTER DATABASE ' + @db_name + ' MODIFY ( 
EDITION = ''Basic'', SERVICE_OBJECTIVE = ''Basic'' );');
END
Microsoft.Data.SqlClient.SqlException (0x80131904): Incorrect syntax near '.'.
   at Microsoft.Data.SqlClient.SqlConnection.OnError(SqlException exception, Boolean breakConnection, Action`1 wrapCloseInAction)
   at Microsoft.Data.SqlClient.SqlInternalConnection.OnError(SqlException exception, Boolean breakConnection, Action`1 wrapCloseInAction)
   at Microsoft.Data.SqlClient.TdsParser.ThrowExceptionAndWarning(TdsParserStateObject stateObj, Boolean callerHasConnectionLock, Boolean asyncClose)
   at Microsoft.Data.SqlClient.TdsParser.TryRun(RunBehavior runBehavior, SqlCommand cmdHandler, SqlDataReader dataStream, BulkCopySimpleResultSet bulkCopyHandler, TdsParserStateObject stateObj, Boolean& dataReady)
   at Microsoft.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.RunExecuteNonQueryTds(String methodName, Boolean isAsync, Int32 timeout, Boolean asyncWrite)
   at Microsoft.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.InternalExecuteNonQuery(TaskCompletionSource`1 completion, Boolean sendToPipe, Int32 timeout, Boolean& usedCache, Boolean asyncWrite, Boolean inRetry, String methodName)
   at Microsoft.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.ExecuteNonQuery()
   at Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Storage.RelationalCommand.ExecuteNonQuery(RelationalCommandParameterObject parameterObject)
   at Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Migrations.MigrationCommand.ExecuteNonQuery(IRelationalConnection connection, IReadOnlyDictionary`2 parameterValues)
   at Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Migrations.Internal.MigrationCommandExecutor.ExecuteNonQuery(IEnumerable`1 migrationCommands, IRelationalConnection connection)
   at Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Migrations.Internal.Migrator.Migrate(String targetMigration)
   at Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Design.Internal.MigrationsOperations.UpdateDatabase(String targetMigration, String contextType)
   at Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Design.OperationExecutor.UpdateDatabaseImpl(String targetMigration, String contextType)
   at Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Design.OperationExecutor.UpdateDatabase.<>c__DisplayClass0_0.<.ctor>b__0()
   at Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Design.OperationExecutor.OperationBase.Execute(Action action)
ClientConnectionId:d9f92b81-9916-48ee-9686-6d0f567ab86f
Error Number:102,State:1,Class:15
Incorrect syntax near '.'.

I assume the commands are not valid for non-Azure DBs. So the question is: How can I prevent these commands to be executed on non-Azure DBs?

Answer 1

The EF Core team is now aware of the issue and added it to their backlog: https://github.com/dotnet/efcore/issues/20682

Meanwhile the officially recommended workaround looks like this:

migrationBuilder.Sql(@"IF SERVERPROPERTY('EngineEdition') = 5
EXEC(N'ALTER DATABASE [ThreeOne.SomeDbContext] MODIFY (EDITION = ''Basic'',  SERVICE_OBJECTIVE = ''Basic'' );');
");

I modified it to work without knowing the current database name:

migrationBuilder.Sql
(
@"declare @dbname varchar(100)
set @dbname=quotename(db_name())
IF SERVERPROPERTY('EngineEdition') = 5
EXEC(N'ALTER DATABASE '+@dbname+' MODIFY (EDITION = ''Basic'', SERVICE_OBJECTIVE = ''Basic'' );');"
);