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DACPAC, or Data-tier Application Component Packages, is a feature in SQL Server 2008 that allows developers to package database changes into a single file in Visual Studio and send it to the DBAs for deployment.

With DACPAC, DBAs get a single deployment file from the developers that contains all the changes; there's nothing to misunderstand or forget.

In the final step, it drops the original database and gives the new one the proper name. You can easily see that creating an entirely new copy of the database for a small code change won't fit into most situations.

Further, DACPAC doesn't copy user permissions or work with service broker or replication objects.

A DACPAC can be seamlessly used across multiple tools that ship with SQL Server 2012. These tools address the requirements of different user personas using a DACPAC as the unit of interoperability.

Application Developer

  1. A database developer can use a SQL Server Data Tools database project to design a database. A successful build of this project results in the generation of a DACPAC contained in a .dacpac file.
  2. In addition, the developer can import a DACPAC into a database project and continue to design the database. SQL Server Data Tools also supports a Local DB for unconnected, client-side database application development. The developer can take a snapshot of this local database to create DACPAC contained in a .dacpac file.
  3. Independently, the developer can publish a database project directly to a database without even generating a DACPAC. The publish operation follows similar behavior as the deploy operation from other tools.

Database Administrator

  1. A DBA can use SQL Server Management Studio to extract a DACPAC from an existing database, and also perform other DAC operations.
  2. In addition, the DBA for a SQL Database can use the Management Portal for SQL Azure for DAC operations. Independent Software Vendor
  3. Hosting services and other data management products for SQL Server can use the DACFx API for DAC operations.

IT Administrator

  1. IT systems integrators and administrators can use the SqlPackage.exe command line tool for DAC operations.

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Why do parameters with defaults need to be set when calling SqlPackage.exe?

I am using a SQL Server Deployment project. If I declare a parameter in the project settings, I always have to specify a value for that variable when I execute the dacpac using SqlPackage.exe, even when I have specified a default value for the…
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Is there a F# type provider for DacPac file

I wonder if there is a F# generative type provider that can be bound to a dacpac file that behave like DbmlFile type provider except for a visual studio database project output. What I am trying to achieve is to use F# type providers as DAL code…
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Include PostDeployment sql script in publish only in debug mode

I have .dacpac project with Script.PostDeployment.sql: :r .\SiteType.sql :r .\Enums.sql :r .\DebugData.sql I want to include DebugData.sql conditionaly, only when i publish with DEBUG configuration profile selected in visual studio, so i will not…
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How to deploy a DACPAC release with known (and accepted) Data Loss

I'm managing a SQL Server database, via DACPAC releases in Azure DevOps. My project is currently in development but I anticipate development continuing after Prod go-live. By default I have the Publish configuration set to b0rk if dataloss is about…
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How to generate DACPAC file

I'm trying to deploy my project in Azure DevOps through IIS website and SQL deployment. However I am struggling with deploying SQL part as I do not have a .dacpac file in my build artifacts. How do I generate this as any option that I have tried it…
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Can I create a dacpac including data in SQL Server 2008?

Can I create a DACPAC including data in SQL Server 2008? My requirement is to generate the incremental script of the DB changes, would I be able to do that using BACPAC? I tried reading this, but this is not much…
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Using sqlcmd to execute deploy scripts generated by DAC in a transaction

We have a DACPAC (sqlproj) solution which has some tables and a post-deployment script which runs some DML queries. If the DML query fails (I'm raising an error with severity=20), I would like to rollback all changes - including the DDL changes…
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Dynamic database reference in SSDT (dacpac) project

Is there a way where the database references in a SQL Server Database project (Dacpac) can be derived at run time? We're building a product which uses Dacpac to deploy database objects. Our product implementation teams also use Dacpac projects by…
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Create User in dacpac deployed by SqlPackage.exe leads to login failed SqlException

Problem I'm trying to automate SQL deployment including User and Roles. It works when I create the user in Sql Management Studio, but when I deploy dacpack I get SqlException: Login Failed for user 'MyUser' Description I have SQL Server 2016…
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How to include dacpac file from build in Solution Output Path

Tools: Visual Studio 2015, SSDT I have an Visual Studio SQL Project which works fine on it's own. I run my build and the dacpac file is in debug\bin\*.dacpac as expected. The problem is this SQL project is part of a WinForms solution. I have…
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Deploy Dacpac packages via power shell script to Azure SQL Server

I'm trying to deploy multiple dacpac's during single build process by using PowerShell script. param( [string]$publish_profile, [string]$path_to_snapshots, [string]$password ) #Load Microsoft.SqlServer.Dac…
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Programmatically export Azure SQL as DACPAC to Blob Storage

I would like to perform a scheduled task of exporting an Azure SQL database as DACPAC to the Blob Storage. I would like to know can I do this. Web Job? Powershell script?
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Can I generate a deployment script from a dacpac

I've got a .dacpac file that's being called by MSBuild and published to a QA database for testing. This publish is failing and the error I'm getting back from them is a generic "an error has occurred" message. I was hoping I could generate the…
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SQL Dacpac Deploy using SqlPackage and DropObjectsNotInSource with DoNotDropUsers

I am running SqlPackage in my CI build to deploy dacpacs and pass in a publish.xml file using the /Profile switch. I have the following three options set in the…
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How to package a deployment contributor in a dacpac?

I cannot find any references to how to package a deployment contributor in a dacpac. We are using DacServices.Deploy Method to deploy our databases as dacpacs to SQL Server. An argument to that method has a property…
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