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Turns out there are a number of ways to do this: 1) Build your own (1 week for me : DBML God) <a href="http://southernbits.com/index.php/2009/05/16/dbml-hell-legacy-db-sqlmetal-is-painful-when-migrating-from-sql-designer/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://southernbits.com/index.php/2009/05/16/dbml-hell-legacy-db-sqlmetal-is-painful-when-migrating-from-sql-designer/</a> 2) Use an existing tool (this may work but I have NOT fully explored yet) <a href="http://www.plinqo.com/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.plinqo.com/</a> 3) Be wary of differences between SQLMetal & SQL Designer. See blog: <a href="http://southernbits.com/index.php/2009/05/25/unfortunate-differences-between-linq-sqlmetal-and-sqldesigner/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://southernbits.com/index.php/2009/05/25/unfortunate-differences-between-linq-sqlmetal-and-sqldesigner/</a> In the end, this took me 1 week of exploration (where I failed to discover plinqo). Simple solutions did not present themselves. I took 1.5 weeks to build a tool (DBMLGod) and another 1 week to refactor / compile code given differences between SQLMetal and SQLDesigner). Testing time is TBD... If you do NOT have a large code base that was built using SQL Designer, you probably won't have as many issues. I think all large, unkempt databases (use lots of complex sprocs & have lots of objects) will be painful. The SQLGeneration time for our databases were 15 minutes on QuadCore 4GB development boxes (ouch). 
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