[entity-framework] Reset Entity-Framework Migrations

I've mucked up my migrations, I used IgnoreChanges on the initial migration, but now I want to delete all my migrations and start with an initial migration with all of the logic.

When I delete the migrations in the folder and try and Add-Migration it doesn't generate a full file (it's empty - because I haven't made any changes since my last, but now deleted, migration).

Is there any Disable-Migrations command, so I can rerun Enable-Migrations?

The Issue: You have mucked up your migrations and you would like to reset it without deleting your existing tables.

The Problem: You can't reset migrations with existing tables in the database as EF wants to create the tables from scratch.

What to do:

1. Delete existing migrations from Migrations_History table.

2. Delete existing migrations from the Migrations Folder.

3. Run add-migration Reset. This will create a migration in your Migration folder that includes creating the tables (but it will not run it so it will not error out.)

4. You now need to create the initial row in the MigrationHistory table so EF has a snapshot of the current state. EF will do this if you apply a migration. However, you can't apply the migration that you just made as the tables already exist in your database. So go into the Migration and comment out all the code inside the "Up" method.

5. Now run update-database. It will apply the Migration (while not actually changing the database) and create a snapshot row in MigrationHistory.

You have now reset your migrations and may continue with normal migrations.

In Entity Framework Core.

1. Remove all files from migrations folder.

2. Type in console

   dotnet ef database drop -f -v
   dotnet ef migrations add Initial
   dotnet ef database update
   

UPD: Do that only if you don't care about your current persisted data. If you do, use Greg Gum's answer

In EntityFramework 6 please try:

Add-Migration Initial

in order to update the initial migration file.

Delete the Migrations Folder, Clean then Rebuild the project. This worked for me. Before Clean and Rebuild it was saying the Migration already exists since in its cached memory, it's not yet deleted.

UPDATE 2020 => Reset Entity-Framework Migrations

Add-Migration Initial -Context ApplicationDbContext

ApplicationDbContext => Your context.

But if you need only update a identity schema existent, try it: https://stackoverflow.com/a/59966100/4654957

My problem turned out to be that I manually removed the Migrations folder. I did that because I wanted to back up the contents, so I simply dragged the folder out of the project. I later fixed the problem by putting it back in (after making a backup copy), then removing the Migrations folder by right-clicking it in Solutions Explorer and choosing Delete from the popup menu.

Considering this still shows up when we search for EF in .NET Core, I'll post my answer here (Since it has haunted me a lot). Note that there are some subtleties with the EF 6 .NET version (No initial command, and you will need to delete "Snapshot" files)

(Tested in .NET Core 2.1)

Here are the steps:

1. Delete the _efmigrationhistory table.
2. Search for your entire solution for files that contain Snapshot in their name, such as ApplicationDbContextSnapshot.cs, and delete them.
3. Rebuild your solution
4. Run Add-Migration InitialMigration

Please note: You must delete ALL the Snapshot files. I spent countless hours just deleting the database... This will generate an empty migration if you don't do it.

Also, in #3 you can just name your migration however you want.

Here are some additional resources: asp.net CORE Migrations generated empty

Reset Entity Framework 7 migrations

How about

Update-Database –TargetMigration: $InitialDatabase

in Package Manager Console? It should reset all updates to its very early state.

Reference link: Code First Migrations - Migrating to a Specific Version (Including Downgrade)

In Net Core 3.0:

I was not able to find a way to Reset Migrations.

I also ran into problems with broken migrations, and the answers provided here didn't work for me. I have a .Net Core 3.0 web API, and somewhere in the last month I edited the database directly. Yes, I did a bad, bad thing.

Strategies suggested here resulted in a number of errors in Package Manager Console:

• A migration of that name already exists
• Could not find the snapshot
• 'Force' is not a recognized parameter

Granted, I may have missed a step or missed clearing out the correct files, but I found that there are ways to clean this up without as much brute force:

• Remove-Migration from the PMC for each migration by name, in reverse order of creation, up to and including the broken migration
• Add-Migration to create a new migration which will be the delta between the last good migration up to the current schema

Now when the web API is started with an empty database, it correctly creates all the tables and properties to match the entity models.

HTH!

This method doesn't require deleting of the __MigrationHistory table, so you don't have to put your hands on the database on deploy.

1. Delete existing migrations from the Migrations folder.
2. In Package Manager Console run Add-Migration ResetMigrations
3. Clean migration history in the Up() method:

/// <summary>
/// Reset existing migrations by cleaning the __MigrationHistory table
/// and creating a new initial migration with the current model snapshot.
/// </summary>
public partial class ResetMigrations : DbMigration
{
    public override void Up()
    {
        Sql("DELETE FROM [dbo].[__MigrationHistory]");
    }

    public override void Down()
    {
    }
}

Enable-Migrations -EnableAutomaticMigrations -Force

In EF6

1. Delete all your files in 'migrations' folder... But not the 'initial create' or 'config'.
2. Delete the database.
3. Now run Add-Migration Initial.
4. Now you can 'update-database' and all will be well.

To fix this, You need to:

1. Delete all *.cs files in the Migrations Folder.

2. Delete the _MigrationHistory Table in the Database

3. Run Enable-Migrations -EnableAutomaticMigrations -Force

4. Run Add-Migration Reset

Then, in the public partial class Reset : DbMigration class, you need to comment all of the existing and current Tables:

public override void Up()
{
// CreateTable(
// "dbo.<EXISTING TABLE NAME IN DATABASE>
// ...
// }
...
}

If you miss this bit all will fail and you have to start again!

5. Now Run Update-Database -verbose

This should be successful if you have done the above correctly, and now you can carry on as normal.