Deployment under the hood

Deploying any type of extension in an online sandbox means the following:

  • The extension is published in a specific application service with a specific application version.
  • The same extension is synchronized (the Azure SQL database structure matches the object metadata definition) and installed in the sandbox tenant.

Extension deployment can be summarized in four phases:

  • Publish: The extension is uploaded into the application database onto which the reference tenant is mounted during the publishing process. There are no changes in the physical structure of the tables in the tenant database. Publishing means a declaration of the object contents (metadata) and the database structure changes that need to be applied ...

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