How to programatically create Sql Azure database of type Basic/Standard edition through Enity Framework code first

Question

I use EF 6. My existing code is :

public void CreateOrUpdateCompanyDb(string companyDbName)
{
        try
        {
            string connectionString = _c         


        

Answer 1

The Edition of Sql Azure Database is something you can specify in Create Database command. AFAIK, you can't specify it using the connection string.

Syntax -

CREATE DATABASE database_name [ COLLATE collation_name ]
{
   (<edition_options> [, ...n]) 
}

<edition_options> ::= 
{
      MAXSIZE = { 100 MB | 500 MB | 1 | 5 | 10 | 20 | 30 … 150…500 } GB  
    | EDITION = { 'web' | 'business' | 'basic' | 'standard' | 'premium' } 
    | SERVICE_OBJECTIVE = { 'shared' | 'basic' | 'S0' | 'S1' | 'S2' | 'P1' | 'P2' | 'P3' } 
}
[;]

Given that, for your scenario, two options come to mind -

1. Before using DbMigrator, explicitly write code which creates the database, if it does not exist using traditional ADO.Net.

2. The other option which comes to mind, but I don't know enough about and you could dig into if you want to, is to somehow find a way to hook into EF, so that you could customize the Create Database command it must generate.