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Add initial migration and update the database

Open a command prompt and navigate to the project directory. (The directory containing the Startup.cs file).
Run the following commands in the command prompt:
```
dotnet restore
dotnet ef migrations add Initial
dotnet ef database update
```
.NET Core is a cross-platform implementation of .NET. Here is what these commands do:
- dotnet restore: Downloads the NuGet packages specified in the .csproj file.
- dotnet ef migrations add Initial Runs the Entity Framework .NET Core CLI migrations command and creates the initial migration. The parameter after "add" is a name that you assign to the migration. Here you're naming the migration "Initial" because it's the initial database migration. This operation creates the Data/Migrations/<date-time>_Initial.cs file containing the migration commands to add the Movie table to the database.
- dotnet ef database update Updates the database with the migration we just created.

You'll learn about the database and connection string in the next tutorial. You'll learn about data model changes in the Add a field tutorial.