Rui Cunha announces an update to SqlPackage.exe:
SqlPackage release 161.8089.0, dated February 13, 2023, brings a new feature: support for Synapse serverless SQL pools. According to the release notes, you can use SqlPackage to extract and publish both external and internal objects from serverless SQL pools. This includes the T-SQL surface area of serverless SQL pools is limited by design to external tables, external views, stored procedures, functions, statistics, and credentials.
The following features are included in support for serverless SQL pools:
- delta external file format
- openrowset provider CosmosDB with PROVIDER, CONNECTION, OBJECT, and CREDENTIAL or SERVER_CREDENTIAL specified
- openrowset format SStream
with ()clause on openrowset
Rui also includes a quick demonstration of this new functionality.