Question

I’m trying to connect to an SQL Server 2008 database in a shared hosting environment from C# from within an ASP.NET MVC 3 application connecting via EF (code first).

My problem is that the generated SELECT statement looks like so:

SELECT ... FROM [dbo].[TableName]

which throws the error Invalid object name, but works fine when I do:

SELECT ... FROM [mySQLUserName].[TableName]

How do I specify a username other than dbo (e.g. mySQLUserName)?

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EDIT:

The closest articles I have found that are relevant to this issue are:

• http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2010/08/03/using-ef-code-first-with-an-existing-database.aspx
• http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2010/07/23/entity-framework-4-code-first-custom-database-schema-mapping.aspx

with specific emphasis on the second article, however it doesn’t specify how to set a username other than dbo

Answer 1

You can specify the schema using a property on the TableAttribute that decorates your entity classes.

[Table("TableName", Schema = "mySQLUserName")]