Easy Schema Migrations in .NET Core
Database Schema Maintenance with Fluent Migrator
In this article:
- Using Fluent Migrator to maintain database schemas
- Writing and applying database schema migrations
- A Database class to keep things simple
- Using up-only migrations to simplify migrations
Introduction
Recap
In a previous article, we created a dev container (see article “Building a Dev Container for .NET Core”). Then we added a second container to run a database server we can use during development (see article “Dockerized SQL Server for Development”). This also served as an example how we can use pre-built container images to make our lives easier as developers.
At this point we have a working development environment but no code. In general, we can use this setup cross-platform, i.e. on Linux, Windows, MacOS, without any change required.
We are ready to introduce the next building block: creating and managing a database schema. This is the main focus of this article. We will use a simple console application to learn how to do this.
