I was doing a project a few months back using Azure's free trial and my trial ran out.
I was using a database engine server on SQL Server Management Studio and now I can't access the server anymore.
I have a dacpac file though that contains the schema structure of the database of the project I was working on.
How do I create a new database from my dacpac file in Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio?
From Sql Server Management Studio, use the Deploy Data-tier Application menu item to open a deployment wizard.
As joshb said, you can use Deploy a Data-tier Application.
Deploy a data-tier application (DAC) from a DAC package to an existing instance of the database engine or Azure SQL Database using a wizard or a PowerShell script.
The deployment process registers a DAC instance by storing the DAC definition in the msdb system database (master in SQL Database); creates a database, then populates that database with all the database objects defined in the DAC.
How do I create a new database from my dacpac file in Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio?
You can reference my steps:
For example, I have a dacpac file:
Using Deploy a data-tier application:
Select packages:
Update configuration:
Depoly DAC and finished:
The new database is created successfully:
Hope this helps.
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I have an Entity framework project created in Visual Studio 2019.
I have created a migration using Add-migration, and have updated the local SQL DB using Update-database. The changes in migration are reflected in (localdb)\MSSQLLocalDB. Everything is working as it should.
Now I want to publish my application from VS, and want the changes in my migration and local DB to move/migrate to the Azure SQL DB for use by masses.
How do I make sure after publishing, the changes have migrated to the Azure SQL DB?
Thanks,
KB
If you have access to azure database from your local just do Update-Database with azure database connection string. otherwise, you should do this somewhere in your application:
yourDbContext.Database.Migrate();
I have a backup of a SQL Server 2008 database. I'd like to restore it as an Azure SQL Server database. Is this possible?
P.S. I've seen a couple of questions to this effect from 2014. Is it possible today?
AFAIK, no it's not possible.
The Unsupported in SQL Azure doco https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/sql-database-transact-sql-information/ directs you to BOL and RESTORE shows it's not available in SQL Azure.
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms186858.aspx
Are you able to restore the backup to an instance of SQL 2008 on-premises/locally first? If so you can then use management studio to Export the data and schema as a BACPAC or DACPAC file (export data tier application), which can then be imported into an Azure database using the Import data tier application. You can also use the Taks -> Generate Scripts option from the database node in the management studio, ensure you check on include schema and data - then the SQL files can be executed against your SQL Azure instance as well.
There are some features which aren't available in SQL Azure that are on the server product, but the import will tell you about those if there are any - things like FILESTREAM aren't supported in Azure. Here is the link to take you through steps to migrate from SQL server to SQL Azure - and here are the differences in supported features between the two.
I have some production databases in Azure and frequently download them as data tier apps, import them into a local instance of SQL Server to do some debugging or testing, its a painless process.
First of all I am new to ssis so sorry if this question is simple to answer.
I open sql management studio 2014, and connect to my sqlserver.
Secondly I connect to my integration services.
Now I have an .ispac file that needs a catalog in my integration services. However I do not have a catalog in my integration services all I have is the following:
How do I add a catalog and deploy my .ispac file to this catalog?
Clarification:
I have 2 servers: 1 crm server and 1 sql server. I have no direct access to the sql server, to connect to the database I use sql management studio 2012.
On the crm server the integration services are installed. I add these to the sql management studio using the connect button (see picture)
I have a deployment file (.ispac) but in order to deploy this I need a catalog. However on the Integration Services that have been added in the sql studio it is not possible to add a catalog. It only has MSDB and I need SSISDB.
How can I deploy my deployment file?
The catalog is part of the Database Engine, not Integration Services.
Create the SSIS Catalog
If you already have a catalog then you just need to connect to the Database Engine. You should find it under a folder named Integration Services Catalogs.
I've ran into problem very similar to this. I have a .dbproj Visual Studio database project. It deploys just fine in SQL Server Express. Now I want to deploy it to SQL Azure - I change the connection parameters but deployment fails with the following text:
C:\Program Files\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v10.0\TeamData\Microsoft.Data.Schema.TSqlTasks.targets(120,5): Error Deploy01234: The target database schema provider could not be determined. Deployment cannot continue.
Done executing task "SqlDeployTask" -- FAILED.
Is deploying .dbproj projects to SQL Azure supported? How do I make Visual Studio deploy the database into SQL Azure? What are other ways to achieve more or less the same results except recreating the database manually using Azure portal?
If you are using Visual Studio 2012, you can now create a Database project and go to Properties - set its Target Platform to SQL Azure in Project Settings tab. Also you can configure the setting for dacpac output. Use this file to import directly as a new SQL Azure database.
As far as I know, Database projects are still not supported by Windows Azure. You can deploy the project to a local SQL server and then use the "Generate Scripts" feature to port the database to SQL Azure. See this link.
An easy solution is to create the database locally and use the SQL Azure Migration Wizard to do the migration up to SQL Azure. It works very well in just a few clicks (and will fix common errors).
Database projects don't work with SQL Azure. What I do is before deploying, create a brand new database on local server (to ensure it is up to date with no dev scripts), and then sync that database to Azure with RedGate SQL Compare. I do a backup first with RedGate SQL Azure Backup.
When we first built DB projects, SQLAzure was still going through its identity crisis and didn't know what it wanted to be. ;)
DBProjects support a significant superset of capabilities vs. SQLAzure. Therefore, it's quite possible that it'll create scripts that won't run against SQLAzure.
I know that the team who took-over the DBProject tooling were looking at restricting the database project generators to output SQLAzure-compatible scripts, but I don't know how far they got or whether they decided to proceed.
I echo dunnry's suggestion above and use the SQL Azure Migration Wizard or Jeremy's and use SQL 2008 R2 and generate Azure-compatible scripts.
I need to transfer a database from a SQL Server instance test server to a production environment that is clustered. But SQL Server doesn't allow you to use backup/restore to do it from single instance to cluster. I'm talking about a Microsoft CRM complex database here.
Your help is greatly appreciated.
Have a look at the Microsoft SQL Server Database Publishing Wizard:
SQL Server Database Publishing Wizard
enables the deployment of SQL Server
databases into a hosted environment on
either a SQL Server 2000 or 2005
server. It generates a single SQL
script file which can be used to
recreate a database (both schema and
data) in a shared hosting environment
where the only connectivity to a
server is through a web-based control
panel with a script execution window.
If supported by the hosting service
provider, the Database Publishing
Wizard can also directly upload
databases to servers located at the
shared hosting provider.
Optionally, SQL Server Database
Publishing Wizard can integrate
directly into Visual Studio 2005
and/or Visual Web Developer 2005
allowing easy publishing of databases
from within the development
environment.
You don't have to use the server-side piece; the client-side 'create a script' piece is generally enough.