Short Walks - System.InvalidOperationException: ‘The seed entity for entity type ‘MyEntity’ cannot be added because another seed entity with the same key value for {‘Id’} has already been added. Consider using ‘DbContextOptionsBuilder.EnableSensitiveDataLogging’ to see the conflicting key values.′

July 08, 2018

I got this error recently while playing with EF Core 2. There’s very little on Google about it; although it’s not a hugely difficult problem to solve, if I ever get it again, I can just Google it !

The error:

System.InvalidOperationException: ‘The seed entity for entity type ‘MyEntity’ cannot be added because another seed entity with the same key value for {‘Id’} has already been added. Consider using ‘DbContextOptionsBuilder.EnableSensitiveDataLogging’ to see the conflicting key values.’

If effectively cause by a conflict in the primary key; and it gives you the first step towards solving it in the error (in OnModelCreating):




var options =
    new DbContextOptionsBuilder<ApplicationDbContext>()
         .UseSqlServer(configuration.GetConnectionString("DefaultConnection"))
         .EnableSensitiveDataLogging()
         .Options;

Now it says:

System.InvalidOperationException: ‘The seed entity for entity type ‘MyEntity’ cannot be added because another seed entity with the key value ‘Id:1’ has already been added.’

In my particular case, I’d been playing around with adding some seed data, and had left this in (OnModelCreating):




modelBuilder.Entity<MyEntity>().HasData(new Data.MyEntity()
{
    Id = 1,
    Name = "Test",
    CreatedDate = new DateTime(2018, 07, 03),
    UpdatedDate = new DateTime(2018, 07, 03)
});