How to transfer ASP.NET MVC Database from LocalDb to SQL Server?

Question

I created a new ASP.NET MVC 5 project in Visual Studio 2013 (Express for Web) and by default, the project uses LocalDb as its database, but how do you transfer or mi

Answer 1

Overlord's migration example is spot on. My note at the end was a bit big for a comment, so here are the required changes to the web.config file. An old method on a local drive was to specify

Data Source=".\[InstanceName]

but may not work on newer interfaces, so replace [.\instance] with [ComputerName\instance] if you migrate forward. This is Visual Studio Pro 2017, SQL Server 2014 & Entity Framework 6.0.

1st update the connection string.. replace items in brackets with info needed to connect to your database.

next update the entity info.. The [InstanceName] used for SQL Server can be found from [SQL Server Mgmt] console - [Server Properties] - [Advanced] - [Filestream Share Name] & defaults as [MSSQLSERVER].

for cloud or other multi-server database migrations, also review [sessionState] settings in web.config & replace [InProc] with [Custom]. [sessionState] comes between [/roleManager] & [/system.web]

this default for 1 db server

& this replacement for mult-server or cloud environments