![]() More often, youll be asked to make changes to an existing database. Significantly, among other things, it contains an XML model of the databases metadata ( model.xml ).Įxtracting schema Extracting schema from database Resolving references in schema model Successfully extracted database and saved it to file C:UsersUserNameAppDataLocalTempAdventureWorks2014.DacPac. ![]() ![]() You may need to run it past other people to get buy-in, such as the Technical Architects, or Governance, for compliance purposes.įortunately, all you need to do is to unpack the DacPac and then compare it to an empty database, or even an empty file, to generate a build script, or to the current production database, to generate an upgrade script.Īs described in my previous article, a DacPac file is simply a binary file, a zipped directory, containing definitions of objects in a SQL Server database. This is fine, but youre probably accustomed to generating your deployment scripts using SQL Compare, inspecting the script, tweaking it, trying it out on staging, running tests to ensure that any problems you get will be subtle or unusual.
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