How to run different pre and post SSDT pubish scripts depending on the deploy profile

Question

I am using SSDT in Visual Studio 2013.

I have created some pre and post publish scripts for the development server. The pre-deployment scripts empty data from tables

Answer 1

You have a few options:

1 - Wrap your data changes in calls to @servername or something unique to the environment so you would have something like:

if @@servername = 'dev_server'
begin
     delete blah
     insert blah

end

2 - You can also achieve something similar using sqlcmd variables, pass in a variable called "/v:DestoryData=true" or something and then you can reference that in your script.

3 - Don't use pre/post deploy scripts but have your own mechanism for running them i.e. use a batch file to deploy your dacpacs and add a call to sqlcmd before and after - the downside to this is that when deploying, changes to a table result in any foreign keys being disabled before the pre-deploy and re-enabled after the post-deploy.

4 - Edit the dacpacs, the pre/post deploy scripts are just text files inside the dacpac which is essentially a zip file that follows the microsoft packaging format and there is a .net packaging api to let you modify it.

I think that is about it, please ask if anything is unclear :)

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