Modern Data Access with Entity Framework Core: Database Programming Techniques for .NET, .NET Core, UWP, and Xamarin with C#

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4. Reverse Engineering of Existing Databases (Database First Development)

Holger Schwichtenberg¹ 

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Essen, Germany

 

This chapter discusses the reverse engineering of existing databases. Reverse engineering is when an object model is created from an existing database schema.

This chapter covers the simpler version 1 of the World Wide Wings database schema. You can install this database schema with the SQL script WWWings66.sql, which also provides the data (10,000 flights and 200 pilots).

Using Reverse Engineering Tools

Out of the box there are no visual tools for this process, but future releases from Microsoft might ...