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What are the advantages and disadvantages of database first approach?
Advantages and Disadvantages
- You can use an existing database and create your tables and associations there.
- Easy to avoid data loss on changes because you will work from the database perspective.
- Better integrated with Stored Procedures and function results (some improvements have been done in EF6)
What is code first approach and what are its important advantages?
The main advantages of using codefirst are: Development Speed – You do not have to worry about creating a DB you just start coding. Good for developers coming from a programming background without much DBA experience.
What’s the difference between code first and database first?
Code First Approach. Code First is a very popular approach and has full control over the code rather than database activity. In this approach, we can do all the database operations from the code and manual changes to database have been lost and everything is depending on the code.
When to use EF database first or EF code first?
I use EF database first in order to provide more flexibility and control over the database configuration. EF code first and model first seemed cool at first, and provides database independence, however in doing this it does not allow you to specify what I consider very basic and common database configuration information.
Are there any disadvantages to using code first?
Second minor disadvantage of code first is that model builder require privileges on master database. This doesn’t affect you if you using SQL Server Compact database or if you control database server.
What happens when you go DB first in Entity Framework?
When you go DB first, you’re at the mercy of what gets generated for your models for use in your application. Occasionally the naming convention is undesirable. Sometimes the relationships and associations aren’t quite what you want. Other times non transient relationships with lazy loading wreak havoc on your API responses.