Question

I have designed my DB using the ORM in VS 2008.

What is the best way to export this to an SQL server so it will create the tables and relations on SQL Server?

Thanks,

JD

Answer 1

If you are using the LINQ-to-SQL, then:

var(dc = new MyDataContext()) {
    dc.CreateDatabase();
}

should do it, but only if you have all the required data. To be honest, it works better starting from tables (perhaps in SSMS) and dragging them into LINQ-to-SQL.

Also; there are a lot of important database concepts (indexing, etc) that is not expressed in DBML.