The migrations feature in EF Core provides a way to incrementally update the database schema to keep it in sync with the application's data model while preserving existing data in the database.

1. .NET Core CLI - dotnet ef migrations add "initial" (enables initial migration)
2. .NET Core CLI -

   dotnet ef database update

   (creates the database)
3. Visual Studio - Add-Migration InitialCreate
4. Visual Studio - Update-Database