2018年1月3日 · As Grant said bacpac is dacpac+data.Below is one more definition that might help "A bacpac includes the schema and data from the database. A dacpac contains only the schema and not the data" You might have understood, you need bacpac. I need this process to run in the fastest way possible, so I'd be curious if one option is better for performance.

2016年5月9日 · The size of the .bacpac file is directly proportional to the number of records in a database (taking into account the compression ratio). The size of the .bak file depends not only on the data but also on the size of the indexes. Sometimes this can be a problem, check for example this old discussion. Therefore, the .bacpac file is usually ...

By default, data for all tables will be included in the .bacpac file. A SqlPackage.exe Export action exports a live database from SQL Server or Windows Azure SQL Database to a BACPAC package (.bacpac file). By default, data for all tables will be included in the .bacpac file.

2022年2月25日 · @DanielMann Yes, I understand that dacpac contains schema, and bacpac contains schema and data. I saw articles and blog posts for multi step process for provisioning a new database and deploying a dacpac to it.

2022年2月7日 · Previously in this chapter, we learned about the Dacpac and now, we will talk about a bacpac. A Bacpac is similar to a Dacpac. In both cases, the schema is in XML, but in a Bacpac, the data is in ...

2020年7月15日 · @KevinXiong I've always assumed so, but I don't think I've ever seen an explanation written down. The primary purpose of the bacpac is moving a whole database from one place to another, so I think the play on words with "backpack" (with a backpack being something that contains everything when you're travelling) was probably key too. –

What is the difference between a .bak file as created when backing up a database, vs just copying the .mdf files and restoring as mentioned over here, vs creating a BACPAC file. In this case, the logs themselves are not important, and the .bak file is far larger than the actual database. (a 20GB backup on a 2GB database).

2018年3月26日 · A BACPAC file can be stored in Azure blob storage or in local storage in an on-premises location and later imported back into Azure SQL Database or into a SQL Server on-premises installation" See ...

So we use this to, for example, grab a bacpac from prod, then import it to a local dev machine (having been sanitised because of this command that skips the sensitive data programmatically); then we run some insert scripts to populate the user table, e.g. with a global admin user with a generic password.

2021年2月18日 · Publish: Incrementally updates a database schema to match the schema of a source .dacpac file. If the database does not exist on the server, the publish operation creates it. Otherwise, an existing database is updated. Export: Exports a connected SQL database - including database schema and user data - to a BACPAC file (.bacpac).