Adding 'GO' statements to Entity Framework migrations

Question

So I have an application with a ton of migrations made by Entity framework. We want to get a script for all the migrations at once and using the -Script tag doe

Answer 1

In order to change the SQL Generated by entity framework migrations you can create a new SqlServerMigrationSqlGenerator

We have done this to add a GO statement before and after the migration history:

public  class MigrationScriptBuilder: SqlServerMigrationSqlGenerator
{
    protected override void Generate(System.Data.Entity.Migrations.Model.InsertHistoryOperation insertHistoryOperation)
    {
        Statement("GO");

        base.Generate(insertHistoryOperation);

        Statement("GO");

    }
}

then add in the Configuration constructor (in the Migrations folder of the project where you DbContext is) so that it uses this new sql generator:

[...]
internal sealed class Configuration : DbMigrationsConfiguration
{
    public Configuration()
    {
        SetSqlGenerator("System.Data.SqlClient", new MigrationScriptBuilder());
        AutomaticMigrationsEnabled = false;
    }
[...]

So now when you generate a script using the -Script tag, you can see that the insert into [__MigrationHistory] is surrounded by GO

Alternatively in your implementation of SqlServerMigrationSqlGenerator you can override any part of the script generation, the InsertHistoryOperation was suitable for us.