{
  "id": 358045,
  "title": "Never Let Migration Tooling Guess the Database",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/09/never-let-migration-tooling-guess-the-database",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-08-09T07:57:33.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dev.to",
    "slug": "dev-to",
    "url": "https://dev.to/iqtechsolutions/never-let-migration-tooling-guess-the-database-3ehf"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "One of the more dangerous database configuration errors is not a failed connection. It is a successful connection to a database nobody deliberately selected. That is why an EF Core design-time DbContext factory deserves more scrutiny than “CLI plumbing”. It decides how tooling constructs the model outside the application’s normal startup path. If it also searches broadly for connection details,…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}