Question

I have a SQL table that contains records that I want to move over to an almost identical table using Entity Framework. i.e. moving records from main table to an archive table.

The second table is a superset of the original table in that it has a few extra fields to designate archive date, etc…

Is there a simpler way to accomplish this then manually matching each field from the original entity to the archive entity?
I looked at Automapper but see that it only works with in memory entities and not my data which is Iqueryable.

TIA
John
(EF newbie)

Answer 1

One way to do this is to have 2 entity classes (one for the transaction table and one for the archive table) and use the AutoMapper to populate the archive object from the transactional object, and call the SaveChanges.