How are Azure BACPAC backup files different than SQL Server BAK files?
问题 Are BACPAC and BAK files conceptually the same thing? A single, self contained file in which you can use to backup/restore a database? 回答1: BACPAC files are not transactionally consistent and that can lead to a database where data is not consistent across tables. Here's what I mean by this: if you start the process of creating a BACPAC and while that's going some data gets updated in the source database then the BACPAC file could contain data from table A as it was at 1:00 PM and also data