Entity framework Core Update-database specific migration

Question

I am trying to figure out how to run a specific migration from the package manager in nuget.

I have tried to run:

 update-database -TargetMigration test32

But I do get this message:

A parameter cannot be found that matches parameter name 'TargetMigration'.

How can this be resolved?

Dmitry · Accepted Answer · 2018-06-05T13:23:14.137

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According to EF Core Docs, correct parameter name is -Target (for EF Core 1.1) or -Migration (for EF Core 2.0)

so in your case:

update-database -target test32

or

update-database -migration test32

"Modern" way is to use "regular" command prompt and .NET Core CLI, and command like dotnet ef database update <target>

edited Jun 05 '18 at 13:23

answered Nov 24 '16 at 13:57

Dmitry

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I don't approve of your second comment. :) Both the Package Manager Console and .NET Command Line Tools are equally legit. – bricelam Nov 29 '16 at 17:14
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Sorry Brice :) I absolutely agree that both are legit, but PMConsole have long history (from VS 2013 or even earlier?), while CLI is more new/young and cross-platform, so I used word "modern" (beer) – Dmitry Dec 21 '16 at 14:32
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there is no target parameter – Andrei Dobrin Jun 01 '18 at 08:38
@Dmitry do you know how to do this via C# code? – Juliyanage Silva Nov 10 '22 at 17:15
There is no -target parameter . Please remove it. – QMaster Aug 27 '23 at 12:40

score 85 · Answer 2 · answered May 15 '18 at 14:11

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The best answer given by Dmitry is a bit incorrect. There's no parameter -Target. The only parameter that can be applied is -Migration. Therefore, the right answer is:

Update-Database -Migration test32

answered May 15 '18 at 14:11

Plastiquewind

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Can confirm. core 2.0 uses -migration. -target is no longer reconized – JSON Mar 20 '19 at 13:58
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This applies all the missing migrations up to the provided one (`test32`), which is what you normally want since migrations might one upon the other and must be run in order. – Alexei - check Codidact Aug 25 '21 at 11:40

score 26 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 27 '20 at 13:18

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For EF Core 3.1 via Package Manager Console:

dotnet ef database update YourMigrationName

answered Jul 27 '20 at 13:18

Stewart Cunningham

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score 5 · Answer 4 · answered Aug 20 '21 at 09:36

Just wanted to add to what Plastiquewind mentioned. In the current version, there is no -target parameter. You have to use -migration. Also, you can specify the context (if you have more than one) with the -context parameter.

Update-database -context MyContext -migration MyMigration

score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Apr 07 '23 at 13:56

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For mac i did like this working for me

dotnet ef database update -c ApplicationDbContext

answered Apr 07 '23 at 13:56

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