Project-oriented offline database development (SQL Server Data Tools) After the changes are complete, you check the files back into version control, where other team members can obtain your changes and build and deploy them to a test server. By using this type of environment, you can test your changes without affecting other members of the team. Performing iterative database development: Developers can check out parts of the project and update them in an isolated development environment. You can use Visual Studio to create a DAC project, build a DAC package file, and send the DAC package file to a database administrator for deployment onto an instance of the SQL Server database engine. A DAC includes database objects, such as tables and views, together with instance entities such as logins. A DAC contains the definition for a SQL Server database and the supporting instance objects that are used by a client-server or 3-tier application. Start development of a data-tier application: The concept of a data-tier application (DAC) was introduced with SQL Server 2008. If you use features in your database that are not supported by data-tier applications, you should instead use a database project to manage changes to your database. To help ensure code quality, your team can finish and test all changes for a particular release of the database in a staging environment before you deploy the changes into production.įor a list of the database features that are supported by data-tier applications, see DAC support for SQL Server objects. Members of your team can then check out files to make, build, and test changes in an isolated development environment, or sandbox, before sharing them with the team. You can help your development team manage changes to databases and database servers by creating a DAC project, database project, or a server project and putting it under version control. Both database projects and DAC projects enable you to apply version control and project management techniques to your database development efforts in much the same way that you apply those techniques to managed or native code. You can use database projects to create new databases, new data-tier applications (DACs), and to update existing databases and data-tier applications. Applies to: Visual Studio Visual Studio for Mac Visual Studio Code

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