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Entity Framework Core attempting to update column marked as Identity in model

I have a database table where one of the columns is an IDENTITY column (not the primary key which is set manually). My EF Core model looks like this: public class Model { [Key] [...
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EF Required to Optional Relationship not using the right columns for FK

I already read many questions, but still couldn't find a solution to my problem. I am trying to have something like this I drawed very quickly First Try: public class CarMap : ...
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Check whether entity column is autoincrement

I need to identify whether the dbcontext column is AutoIncrement column. i.e: db.events, event_id column is AutoIncrement?
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Is it possible to auto increment a property which is not the primary key in Entity Framework?

Is it possible to have a primary key and another field which is not the primary key with the "auto increment" function in Entity Framework? I found this on the web, tried it, but it does not work: ...
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get identity when adding via entity framework

I'm using entity framework to insert a new record into my templates database. I would like to know what the identity of the inserted record is after the insert is done. my code for inserting the ...
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Get Identity Field out of KeyMembers

I would like to get the KeyMembers where I have set in the Edmx the StoreGeneratedPattern to Identity is there a way to do this? I can get the KeyMembers with this code: private static IEnumerable&...
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Data insert issue after migrating database from SQL Azure to SQL Server

I have a database on SQL Azure which has an identity primary. After using SQL Server Import and Export Wizard, I transferred the data to my SQL Server 2008 R2 database. My ASP.NET Application runs ...
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Exponentially deteriorating performance on inserts in SQL Server Compact 4.0 tables with an Identity column

EDIT: the issue below has been fixed in the Entity Framework 6. Running the code below takes a disappointing 2 minutes and 10 seconds. Running it a second time takes 6.5 minutes. This question is ...
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Is using a (sequential) GUID the only viable alternative to a database generated ID?

We are migrating our MS-Access database to SQL Server Compact 4.0 using the Entity Framework 5 Code First approach. We found that using Database generated Integer ID's is very slow and to make it ...
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Strategy for implementing a composite key of which the second part is rarely discriminating. Entity Framework Code First

I have the following scenario: An Atom Entity is usually unique and can be stored in the database using a single AtomID field as its primary key.. In rare cases theAtomneeds to be split. In that ...
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Letting EF 4.1 auto-create an identity column

Suppose you have public class A { public string _myString; } And this context: public class MyContext: DbContext { public DbSet<A> myASet{ get; set; } } Now, is there a way to tell EF ...
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ExecuteStoreCommand returns -1 , EntityFramework , C#?

I wanna get the next automatically incrementing primary key, Here I understood to use T-SQL for doing that. So I wrote the following method : public int GetLastNewsID() { const string command = @...
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EF returns 0000-0000-0000-xxx as Guid when I try save a new record or update existing record?

I am using EF4 in my C# project. The problem I'm faced with is that, when I try to save a record, I get a Primary Key Violation and the PK value is "0000-0000-0000-xxx". From my guess, EF does not ...
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In Entity Framework, getting the value of an identity column after inserting

I'm using EF4. I want to insert a new MyObject into the database. MyObject has two fields: Id: int (Identity) and Name: string As I've seen in documentation Entity Framework is supposed to set ...
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How should I handle maintaining row Identity for new records in Linq / Entity Framework?

What is the proper way to create a new unique shared key when using Linq and EF with SQL? I could use a GUID upon inserting the record but I only want want my keys to have 7 digits or characters in ...
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