Improving the Class-to-Table Mapping
Learn about configuring entity data models for different database providers, including changing entity models for SQLite databases.
The dotnet-ef
the command-line tool generates different codes for SQL Server and SQLite because they support different levels of functionality.
SQL Server and SQLite generated code
For example, SQL Server text columns can limit the number of characters. SQLite does not support this. So, dotnet-ef will generate validation attributes to ensure string
properties are limited to a specified number of characters for SQL Server but not for SQLite, as shown in the following code:
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