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I'm evaluating a few ORM's for a new project. Can the Entity Framework (v4) run on anything other than SQL Server? (i.e. MySQL?)

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the short answer: yes Using MySQL with Entity Framework

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Kris Ivanov
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  • Btw. this should be comment or reason for close as a duplicate because reposting answers (not yours) is not very welcome on SO. – Ladislav Mrnka Apr 07 '11 at 18:16
  • I agree, almost at "cast close" ability myself, however the question did not specifically asked for EF4 and MySQL, more general case, so it is a little stretch to be closed for duplicate – Kris Ivanov Apr 08 '11 at 02:32
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It sounds like it can, but there are not out of the box extensions to allow it to build the templates for code generation.

Here is another SO question that relates

This question directly relates to EF and MySQL

And a third that looks like it has implementation steps

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Here you have list of available providers for other database servers.

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