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Entity Framework - using the same DbContext with different connection strings

I'm currently trying to use the same DbContext (I have two databases of the same structure) in my application. I'm not quite sure what I'm doing wrong, but here is my current code - I hope this will be pretty obvious what I'm trying to do. I am using the first EF database (which, apparently, does not indicate an error below).

My context is factory code:

public class HOLContextFactory
    {
        public static HOLDbEntities Create()
        {
            return new HOLDbEntities(); // Works
        }

        public static HOLDbQuoteEntities CreateQuote()
        {
            return new HOLDbQuoteEntities(); // Gives error
        }
    }

public partial class HOLDbQuoteEntities : HOLDbEntities
    {
        public HOLDbQuoteEntities()
            : base("HOLDbQuoteEntities") // This should send "HOLDbQuoteEntities" as the base connection string?! 
// Also tried "name=HOLDbQuoteEntities"
            {
            }
        }

Web.config connection strings:

<add name="HOLDbEntities" connectionString="metadata=res://*/HOLDbContext.csdl|res://*/HOLDbContext.ssdl|res://*/HOLDbContext.msl;provider=System.Data.SqlClient;provider connection string=<connstringdetails>" providerName="System.Data.EntityClient" />

<add name="HOLDbQuoteEntities" connectionString="metadata=res://*/HOLDbContext.csdl|res://*/HOLDbContext.ssdl|res://*/HOLDbContext.msl;provider=System.Data.SqlClient;provider connection string=<connstringdetails>" providerName="System.Data.EntityClient" /> // using diff database - same structure

Error using "HOLDbQuoteEntities":

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Entity Framework :

public class HOLContextFactory
{
    public static HOLDbEntities Create()
    {
        // default connection string
        return new HOLDbEntities(); 
    }

    public static HOLDbEntities CreateQuote()
    {
        // specified connection string
        return new HOLDbEntities ("HOLDbQuoteEntities"); 
    }
}

public partial class HOLDbEntities
{
    public HOLDbEntities(string connectionString)
        : base(connectionString) 
        {
        }
    }
}
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. , metadata=res://*/

:

<add name="HOLDbEntities" connectionString="metadata=res://*/;provider=System.Data.SqlClient;provider connection string=<connstringdetails>" providerName="System.Data.EntityClient" />

<add name="HOLDbQuoteEntities" connectionString="metadata=res://*/;provider=System.Data.SqlClient;provider connection string=<connstringdetails>" providerName="System.Data.EntityClient" />
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