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EF Core - Missing related entity in class despite foreign key after running Scaffold-DbContext

In a SQL Server database, I have two almost identical tables TBL_1 and TBL_2. Here are the create scripts for both tables:

TBL_1:

CREATE TABLE [dbo].[TBL_1](
    [ID] [int] IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL,
    [name] [nvarchar](100) NOT NULL,
    [value_type_ID] [int] NOT NULL,
    [description] [nvarchar](150) NOT NULL,
 CONSTRAINT [PK_TBL_1] PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED 
(
    [ID] ASC
)WITH (STATISTICS_NORECOMPUTE = OFF, IGNORE_DUP_KEY = OFF, OPTIMIZE_FOR_SEQUENTIAL_KEY = OFF) ON [PRIMARY]
) ON [PRIMARY]
GO

ALTER TABLE [dbo].[TBL_1] ADD  CONSTRAINT [DF__TBL_1__param__40F9A68C]  DEFAULT ('-') FOR [name]
GO

ALTER TABLE [dbo].[TBL_1] ADD  CONSTRAINT [DF_TBL_1_description]  DEFAULT ('-') FOR [description]
GO

ALTER TABLE [dbo].[TBL_1]  WITH CHECK ADD  CONSTRAINT [TBL_1_TBL_value_types] FOREIGN KEY([value_type_ID])
REFERENCES [dbo].[TBL_Value_Type_Definition] ([value_type_ID])
GO

ALTER TABLE [dbo].[TBL_1] CHECK CONSTRAINT [TBL_1_TBL_value_types]
GO

TBL_2:

CREATE TABLE [dbo].[TBL_2](
    [ID] [int] IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL,
    [name] [nvarchar](100) NOT NULL,
    [value_type_ID] [int] NOT NULL,
 CONSTRAINT [PK_TBL_2] PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED 
(
    [ID] ASC
)WITH (STATISTICS_NORECOMPUTE = OFF, IGNORE_DUP_KEY = OFF, OPTIMIZE_FOR_SEQUENTIAL_KEY = OFF) ON [PRIMARY]
) ON [PRIMARY]
GO

ALTER TABLE [dbo].[TBL_2] ADD  CONSTRAINT [DF_TBL_2_name]  DEFAULT ('-') FOR [name]
GO

ALTER TABLE [dbo].[TBL_2]  WITH CHECK ADD  CONSTRAINT [TBL_2_TBL_value_types] FOREIGN KEY([value_type_ID])
REFERENCES [dbo].[TBL_Value_Type_Definition] ([value_type_ID])
GO

ALTER TABLE [dbo].[TBL_2] CHECK CONSTRAINT [TBL_2_TBL_value_types]
GO

After executing Scaffold-DbContext, the following classes were generated for these two tables:

public partial class Tbl2
{
    public Tbl2()
    {
        Tbl2Translations = new HashSet<Tbl2Translation>();
    }

    public int Id { get; set; }
    public string Name { get; set; }
    public int ValueTypeId { get; set; }

    public virtual ICollection<Tbl2Translation> Tbl2Translations { get; set; }
}

public partial class Tbl1
{
    public Tbl1()
    {
        Tbl1Translations = new HashSet<Tbl1Translation>();
    }

    public int Id { get; set; }
    public string Name { get; set; }
    public int ValueTypeId { get; set; }
    public string Description { get; set; }

    public virtual TblValueTypeDefinition ValueType { get; set; }
    public virtual ICollection<Tbl1Translation> Tbl1Translations { get; set; }
}

For some reason, a related ValueType is generated for Tbl1, but not for Tbl2. I've already compared the tables in the database but I cannot find any obvious reason for why the related ValueType is missing in Tbl2. This is very frustrating because I have no starting point for debugging this issue so it basically feels like searching for a needle in a haystack. Here is the generated TblValueTypeDefinition class:

public partial class TblValueTypeDefinition
{
    public TblValueTypeDefinition()
    {
        Tbl2s = new HashSet<Tbl2>();
    }

    public int ValueTypeId { get; set; }
    public string Name { get; set; }
    public string Unit { get; set; }
    public string Type { get; set; }

    public virtual ICollection<Tbl2> Tbl2s { get; set; }
}

And here is the create script for this table:

CREATE TABLE [dbo].[TBL_Value_Type_Definition](
    [value_type_ID] [int] IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL,
    [name] [nvarchar](50) NOT NULL,
    [unit] [nvarchar](10) NOT NULL,
    [type] [nvarchar](10) NOT NULL,
 CONSTRAINT [PK_TBL_Value_Type_Definition] PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED 
(
    [value_type_ID] ASC
)WITH (STATISTICS_NORECOMPUTE = OFF, IGNORE_DUP_KEY = OFF, OPTIMIZE_FOR_SEQUENTIAL_KEY = OFF) ON [PRIMARY]
) ON [PRIMARY]
GO

ALTER TABLE [dbo].[TBL_Value_Type_Definition] ADD  DEFAULT ('-') FOR [name]
GO

ALTER TABLE [dbo].[TBL_Value_Type_Definition] ADD  DEFAULT ('-') FOR [unit]
GO

ALTER TABLE [dbo].[TBL_Value_Type_Definition] ADD  DEFAULT ('-') FOR [type]
GO

What could be the reason why the related entity is missing in one of the tables?

over 4 years ago · Santiago Trujillo
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