Setting up SQL Server on macOS and managing migrations through dotnet CLI

Hi there. it’s been a minute :)

I recently switched from using a Windows PC to Mac because I have been doing a lot more on the frontend of late. I started working on a .Net Core project but I needed to set up SQL Server on my Mac. When it was all set up, I tried running database migrations and discovered the Visual Studio for Mac does not include a package manager console. I decided to use the dotnet-ef cli for my migrations instead.

This article covers the basic approach to setting up SQL Server on MacOS and how…