Question

This is for an existing database with a View table.
Trying to list a View table, but came across this err msg in my Action:

CREATE DATABASE permission denied in database 'master'.

The view table to access is called: SomeTable

and if you run this on the database (ServerA_dev_alpha_custom):

sp_helptext 'SomeTable'

You’ll get this:

 CREATE VIEW dbo.[SomeTable] AS  SELECT * FROM ServerA_dev_alpha.dbo.[SomeTable]

Here’s the model:

public class SomeTable
{
    [Key]
    public virtual string SomeTableid  { set; get; }
    public virtual string name  { set; get; }
    public virtual string formvalue  { set; get; }
    public virtual string status  { set; get; }
    public virtual DateTime CreateDate { set; get; }    
}

The class name:

public class SomeDB: DbContext

Matches exactly to the connection string name:

    <add name ="SomeDB"
         connectionString ="data source=ServerA\DBSome; integrated Security=SSPI; initial catalog=ServerA_dev_alpha_custom"
         providerName="System.Data.SqlClient"/>

The err is found in creating the model:

SomeDB _db = new SomeDB();

var model = (from c in _db.SomeTable
  orderby c.CreateDate descending
  select c).Take(20);

When i change the connection string to point to where the table is defined: ServerA_dev_alpha (database) it works.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

Even if you’ve an existing database setting the initializer to null works:

Database.SetInitializer<SomeDB>(null);

Second; forcing a mapping to the table name did the trick:

modelBuilder.Entity<SomeTable>()
.ToTable("SomeTable");