Database migration

We have created the business entity—the Employee class. Now, we can proceed with the migration. Migration is a two-step process: in the first step, we create the migration files. This can be done by executing the following command from the command prompt from the context of the project:

dnx ef migrations add InitialMigration

Database migration

This command will create the migration files in your project, as shown in the following screenshot:

Database migration

Then execute the following command to create the database:

This command will read the migration files created ...

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