How to Manage EF Core Migrations in CI/CD Pipelines
Database migrations are easy to manage during development. You update your entity classes, generate a migration, and apply it to your local database. Most of…
Masasi Arai
Solutions Architect | Developer | Blogger
Masasi Arai
Solutions Architect | Developer | Blogger
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Lessons Learned from Migrating from EF6 to EF Core
An EF6 application can compile after moving to EF Core and still behave differently. A query might fail only when executed, an entity relationship might…
Real-World Data Archiving with EF Core
A database that works well with 100,000 records may behave differently once it contains several million. Queries become more expensive, indexes take up more storage,…
How I Implemented Row-Level Security in EF Core
When building a multi-tenant application, one of the first questions that comes up is simple: how do we make sure one customer cannot see another…
Multi-Tenant Architecture with EF Core: Schema Per Tenant vs Shared
Multi-tenancy sounds simple when we first describe it. We have one application serving multiple customers, organizations, merchants, or companies. Each customer is a tenant, and…
How I Used EF Core in a Real Inventory System
When people first learn Entity Framework Core, the examples are usually simple. You create a Product table, perform a few CRUD operations, and everything works…
Handling Concurrency Conflicts in EF Core
There is one problem that every developer eventually experiences, even if the application is small. Everything works perfectly during testing, but once multiple users start…
Audit Logging in EF Core: Who Did What and When
One of the questions I often receive from business users, auditors, and even fellow developers is very simple: “Who changed this record?” The second question…
Soft Delete in EF Core Using Query Filters
One pattern that shows up almost everywhere in real systems is soft delete. At first it looks trivial. Just add a column called IsDeleted and…
EF Core Interceptors: Injecting Logic Into Query Pipeline
When I first encountered Entity Framework Core interceptors, I honestly did not pay much attention to them. At that time, I was busy solving more…
