I have a project to try and work with an existing database we have. It’s a new project and I was going to use EF 8.0 to work with the database. I know how to scaffold from an existing database, but the DB for this project has around 100+ tables and I don’t need to deal with those tables. I only need to deal with around 20 of them for my task. And even those tables, there’s only a handful of fields that I care about. Is there a better way of setting all of this up without scaffolding a bunch of schema I don’t care about?

Also, I know about the POCO tool, but that doesn’t work for me, since we can’t really be buying licenses to software right now.