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Yes, I'd definitely like to make changes to an EF entity model. The most glaring omission I see in it right now is there is no way to refactor the persistence layer without losing your data - at least, I haven't yet found a way to do it.
I have lots of MDA experience, and used a tool previously that would refactor the database based on updates to the model without data loss, so I'm really missing that capability right now.
There are also some other limitations of the EF designer in VS that annoy me today, again probably because I have experience with other modeling tools that streamlined some of these processes.
When you say "cross-platform" do you mean databases or operating systems? For my current work, our server-side development will be windows and .NET. Our clients will be on every other device, so we are working on solutions to reuse our model and business logic as much as possible on every OS platform. / comments
Yes, I'd definitely like to make changes to an EF entity model. The most glaring omission I see in it right now is there is no way to refactor the persistence layer without losing your data - at le...
In this instance, I think I'll end up writing the script to make the metadata changes so I can re-apply it. For .NET customers like me who are hoping EntityFramework will continue to advance, I probably wouldn't be looking for a modeler from you, at least for MSSQL. However, I don't know how well EF and VS modeling works for other databases -- I imagine that will only get better.
There certainly are plenty of DBAs who don't use VS who could benefit from a good cross-platform modeling tool. I know Embarcadero (where I used to work) makes pretty good business from that. / comments
In this instance, I think I'll end up writing the script to make the metadata changes so I can re-apply it. For .NET customers like me who are hoping EntityFramework will continue to advance, I pro...
Thanks for the reply. I think I'm going to investigate using SQL Compare in one window and a tool to directly manipulate the table metadata in the other. I have your full SQL Developer bundle - do you have a tool that's better than MS's Management studio I should be using for that? / comments
Thanks for the reply. I think I'm going to investigate using SQL Compare in one window and a tool to directly manipulate the table metadata in the other. I have your full SQL Developer bundle - do ...
Two-way synchronization
Hi. I've just started to use SQL Compare, and things are going pretty smoothly with it. I like that I can immediately get comparison results.
I have forked versions of a database I'm trying to merg...