Entity Framework 6 - Knowledge Base (KB)

Date time and SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server 2005

I've built a entity framework model against a 2008 database. All works ok against the 2008 database. When I try to update the entity on a 2005 database I get this error. ...The version of SQL Server in use does not support datatype 'datetime2...I speci...

Why does EF5 code first use datetime2 when inserting a nullable datetime into the database?

I am saving a Cart object to the database that has a nullable datetime. This is the error I get: ...The conversion of a datetime2 data type to a datetime data type resulted in an out-of-range value....There are quite a few stackoverflow posts documentin...