Caution

This documentation is for EF Core. For EF6.x and earlier release see http://msdn.com/data/ef.

Note

The configuration in this section is applicable to relational databases in general. The extension methods shown here will become available when you install a relational database provider (due to the shared Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Relational package).

Default Schema

The default schema is the database schema that objects will be created in if a schema is not explicitly configured for that object.

Conventions

By convention, the database provider will chose the most appropriate default schema. For example, Microsoft SQL Server will use the dbo schema and SQLite will not use a schema (since schemas are not supported in SQLite).

Data Annotations

You can not set the default schema using Data Annotations.

Fluent API

You can use the Fluent API to specify a default schema.

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    class MyContext : DbContext
    {
        public DbSet<Blog> Blogs { get; set; }

        protected override void OnModelCreating(ModelBuilder modelBuilder)
        {
            modelBuilder.HasDefaultSchema("blogging");
        }
    }