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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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How to reference a deployment contributor from a sqlproj file?

I've been researching the use of deployment contributors within a SQL Server project (SSDT). The documentation indicates that deployment contributors must be placed in a folder within the Visual Studio installation location (for example: C:\Program…
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CREATE ASSEMBLY failed because assembly failed verification. Check if the referenced assemblies are up-to-date and trusted to execute in the database

A database with a CLR dll was migrated from SQL Server 2008R2 to SQL Server 2017. Deployment to this database is automated using DacPac in Azure DevOps. The dll is registered with EXTERNAL_ACCESS. Since the migration to the new server, the…
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Azure Pipeline Deploy DacPac to Azure SQL - How to add firewall rule?

I've got an Azure DevOps Release Pipeline and I'm trying to deploy a SQL Database. Here is the YAML for the task: steps: - task: SqlAzureDacpacDeployment@1 displayName: 'Azure SQL DacpacTask' inputs: azureSubscription: 'Dev/Test Connection' …
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CI with a SQL Always Encrypted column

We are trying to add Always encrypted in one of our application and we would like to make it work with our CI flow. We are using DACPAC deploy with Azure Devops. Everything worked until now but we are facing a challenge with always…
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Deploy DACPAC with SqlPackage from Azure Pipeline is ignoring arguments and dropping users

I have a release pipeline in Azure where I pass a .dacpac artifact (created with VStudio) to be deployed in an on-prem Sql Server 2016. It works good, but now I want to drop tables, views, functions and stored procedures on my server via .dacpac. So…
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Facing errors while SQL deployment in azure devops pipeline

Am using sql DACPAC type of deployment in release pipeline of azure devops.but getting below error. I have no idea about SQL.Any suggestions? Publishing to database 'database_name' on server 'Server_name'. Initializing deployment (Start) *** The…
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Dry-run DACPAC with sqlpackage

Is it possible to execute a "dry-run" using sqlpackage.exe on a DACPAC? The reason I am asking is that we have an internal process with automates and tracks all changes to the database but also an external process that does manual releases. What I…
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DacPac Deploy - Adjusting Lock Timeout Period

I have a DacPac that I'm deploying to multiple databases on the same server at once. Because this puts the server under a great load occasionally you get "Lock Timeouts" on this type of deployment. When I intersected the DacPac deployment in SQL…
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Deploy DACPAC to multiple Databases

I have created a release pipeline in VSTS that, as one of the steps, has a SQL server Database deploy task to deploy a DACPAC. The Task essentially executes the sqlPackage.exe in the background. Our server contains multiple database with the same…
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SSDT Project publish transactional deployment

I am using SQLPackage.exe utility together with Database project's publish profiles to run changes to the SQL Server database. From my understanding, this is the deployment process: Pre-Deployment Script Main Deployment Post-Deployment Script I…
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Execution Timeout Expired error during DACPAC (SSDT) publish using DacServices.Deploy

We're randomly getting the below error when publishing a dacpac using DacServices.Deploy in C#. Along with tables, the Dacpac also has a post-deployment script which is the part which is raising the timeout error. We're publishing onto a new SQL…
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"Invalid column name" error when using data migration scripts

There's a couple data migration scripts in my SSDT project. First one stores data from one table to another temporary table: IF EXISTS ( SELECT * FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS WHERE table_name = N'DocumentEvent' AND column_name…
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How to test if DACPAC can be deployed without actual deployment

Is it possible to test a DACPAC against the DB without deploying it? sqlpackage.exe with Action=Deploy will deploy it if no errors are found and Action=Report will just generate a report with the list of changes but deployment can still fail.
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How to disable predeployment and postdeployment scripts in DacServices.Deploy()

We have some automated dacpac deployment code which correctly handles both a CreateNewDatabase and straightforward Update database scenarios in C# using Microsoft.SqlServer.Dac Now in the CreateNewDatabase case we want to be able to run the…
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Creating schema in VS+SSDT without AUTHORIZATION clause

I am using Visual Studio Community 2015 with SSDT 14.0.6121.0. I created SQL Server Database Project and added a Schema object. Inside of this, I wrote CREATE SCHEMA [MySchema] and created a project snapshot. However, when I deploy this…
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