Entity Designer Settings Options

The Entity Designer Settings Options page allows you to control certain aspects of how Entity Designer generates an Oracle Database create script from an Entity Model. These options only apply when connected to an Oracle database release 12.1 or higher.

Accessing Entity Designer Settings Options Page

To access the General Options Page, select Options... from the Tools menu. From the Options menu, select Oracle Developer Tools. Then select Entity Designer Settings.

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Using the Entity Designer Settings Options

The controls of the Entity Designer Settings Options are as follows:

Control	Description
Set maximum size for extended data type columns to 32767	When enabled, Entity Framework Model DDL generation (described in Generating an Oracle Database Create Script from an Entity Model) uses Oracle extended data types of size 32767. This is only available in Oracle Database Release 12.1 or later.
Generate IDENTITY column(s)	When enabled, Entity Framework Model DDL generation (described in Generating an Oracle Database Create Script from an Entity Model) uses IDENTITY columns (rather than a sequence and trigger combination). This is only available in Oracle Database Release 12.1 or later.