Scaffold-DbContext (EF Core Tools) throws ‘Instance failure’ exception

I think you need to change your instance name. For example : Scaffold-DbContext “Server=PC\SQLEXPRESS;Database=***;User ID=sa;Password=****” Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.SqlServer -OutputDir model So your instance in this case is : PC\\SQLEXPRESS. This instance should be like this : .\SQLEXPRESS

EF Core migrations in Docker container

In my opinion, it is your first point (Database.Migrate() due startup) that meets mostly our use case. So for me, it`s currently the preferred way to do that. We have some additional constellations in the starting up process: Docker container locally only (for dev environment and testing for sure) Own startup project which executes the … Read more