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title: Entity Properties - EF Core
description: How to configure and map entity properties using Entity Framework Core
author: roji
ms.date: 10/12/2021
ms.date: 01/08/2025
uid: core/modeling/entity-properties
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# Entity Properties
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When using a relational database, the database provider selects a data type based on the .NET type of the property. It also takes into account other metadata, such as the configured [maximum length](#maximum-length), whether the property is part of a primary key, etc.

For example, SQL Server maps `DateTime` properties to `datetime2(7)` columns, and `string` properties to `nvarchar(max)` columns (or to `nvarchar(450)` for properties that are used as a key).
For example, when using SQL Server, Entity Framework maps `DateTime` properties to `datetime2(7)` columns, and `string` properties to `nvarchar(max)` columns (or to `nvarchar(450)` for properties that are used as a key).

You can also configure your columns to specify an exact data type for a column. For example, the following code configures `Url` as a non-unicode string with maximum length of `200` and `Rating` as decimal with precision of `5` and scale of `2`:

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