June 2015
Intermediate to advanced
1800 pages
70h 6m
English
Database administrators tasked with deploying databases to remote servers can use data-tier applications (DACs, introduced with SQL Server 2008 R2) to rapidly and reliably create the schemas, tables, views, and other objects that make up application databases to any number of target environments.
DACs rely on backup package (BACPAC) files that contain all the logic necessary to re-create a database and its dependencies. The BACPAC functionality provided out-of-the-box in SSMS enables you to easily transfer databases into and out of ASD as a simple means of backup and restore.
To export a complete database from ASD to a local file, complete the following steps:
1. Connect to your ...
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