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Dacpac Deployment Models

Ed Elliott discusses publish profiles as part of dacpac deployment scenarios:

For a while I meandered between the two approaches until the ssdt team announced that they had released a nuget package with the DacFx in and I decided that I would move over to that as it meant that I no longer had to check in the dll’s into source control which in itself is a big win. I also decided to fix the extensions thing and so figured out a (slightly hacky) way to get the DacFx dll’s in the nuget package to behave like sqlpackage and allow a sub-directory to be used to load dll’s – I fixed that using this powershell module that wraps a .net dll (https://the.agilesql.club/blogs/Ed-Elliott/DacFxed-Nugetized-DacFx-Power…). Now I have the problem of not having to check in dll’s and still being able to load contributors without having to install into program files sorted BUT I still had the problem of lots of command line args which I was sharing in powershell scripts and passing in some custom bits like server/db names etc.

I’m not very familiar with dacpacs, so this was an interesting read for me.