If a database table looks a certain way, then the presumption that the logical entity must be “exactly the same” is their first guess. But physical tables may be denormalized and otherwise abused, ...

Creating the Right Database Initializer for Entity Framework. If you want to treat your database design as an 'implementation detail' that just falls out of getting your object model right, then ...

Microsoft has made a promised public preview of its Common Data Model (CDM) entity database available to testers. CDM is at the heart of the coming Microsoft Dynamics 365 bundle.