I am trying to add a read only View to the Entity Data Model using the update model from database option in the .edmx file. I have been googling this issue into the ground and every site I go to and question I click on says that I need to add a primary key. I know that adding this view is possible because I have done this before using the same database, I just don’t remember how I did it. I can’t add a key to the view because it is read-only so that answer won’t work for me. I know that this question has been asked before but to be quite honest they all link back to the same questions that do not provide a good answer. I am 100% sure that I can add this view to the entity model and after I figure it out I will post here on how to do it if no one else can tell me how. In the mean time I thought I would ask you guys if you might know how I can add this view to the model. Thanks for your help! Hope you have a great day!
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Even with a read-only view, it needs PKs (to uniquely identify rows) to properly retrieve from the database.
Also, the PKs need to be non-nullable fields. I’ve had to add ISNULL(Field, 0) as Field in my Views’ select statements.