Customizing the Migrations History Table (EF6 and above)
- Last Updated: April 16, 2026
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Migrations history table is a table used by Code First Migrations to store details about migrations applied to the database. By default the name of the table in the database is __MigrationHistory and it is created when applying the first migration do the database. This was a system table in Entity Framework 5, but is no longer marked a system table in EF 6.0.