title: How do I handle database-first when the database doesn't have any links (and I can't add any)?
body: <p>I have been asked to write a web site that will use an existing SQL Server database. The database was designed to work with another application, and so I can't make any potentially breaking changes to it.</p>
  
  <p>Unfortunately, the database does not contain a single relational link, each table is standalone.</p>
  
  <p>I know you can use EF commands to scaffold a database and create entity classes, but I would like the code to know the relationships that should exist between the tables.</p>
  
  <p>I thought about scaffolding the database, then modifying the created classes to include the links, but I'm not sure if that would allow EF to load related entities. Also, as I will need to add some new tables to the database, I'm worried that EF will try and create those links when I do the migration.</p>
  
  <p>Is there any way to do this?</p>