How to prevent Entity Framework from converting empty strings to null in database-first approach

I have to insert empty strings in a non-nullable varchar field in an oracle db. The property of the object I'm trying to save is set to empty string, but when I call SaveChanges I get an error because EF converts my empty string to null. I know that, in code-first approach, there you can use ConvertEmptyStringToNull=false: is there a way to achieve the same behavior with database-first approach?

Solution

It appears that in Oracle (at least for now) the empty string is treated as null. Therefore there is no way to save an empty string in a varchar field.

Note:Oracle Database currently treats a character value with a length of zero as null. However, this may not continue to be true in future releases, and Oracle recommends that you do not treat empty strings the same as nulls.

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