Changing the type of an (Entity Framework) entity that is part of an inheritance hierarchy

Question

I have an inheritance hierarchy with a base Employee entity and some descendent entities for specific employee types. I need to be able to convert a base Employee entity to

Answer 1

Technically, you can achieve it by using the stored procedure. TPT does not support it.

However, I totally agree with Craig. In classic programming book Design Patterns (Addison-Wesley Professional), authors discuss inheritance versus composition and conclude that one should "favor composition over inheritance."