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Asked: 2026-06-18T21:04:48+00:00

Is it possible to use the CreateIndex syntax of EF Code First Migrations to

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Is it possible to use the CreateIndex syntax of EF Code First Migrations to create a Covering Index (*see below for what a Covering Index is).

For example I can create a simple index in a manual migration like so:

CreateIndex("RelatedProduct", "RelatedId");

It has a final argument named “anonymous arguments” that specifies it can handle whatever the underlying provider supports – but it’s not clear how I determine what that support would be. Is this possible or do I need to resort to flat SQL?

*A Covering Index is one where the RDB stores duplicated data in the leaf nodes, not just pointers to the main table. It’s essentially a duplication of a table reordered by the columns in the index, containing just the columns most used in that type of search.

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  1. Editorial Team

    I think the covering index is non-clustered index which covers the query (so it doesn’t require any additional lookups back to the table). What you describe is additional feature of such index which allows you including data which are not part of the index key on the leaf level.

    CreateIndex doesn’t support that now. You must either use Sql directly or you can check EF’s source code and add support for INCLUDE into CreateIndex call, CreateIndexOperation and related Generate method in SQL Generator.

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