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

I would suggest to use SQLCMD Variables for your conditional script execution.

If right-click on a DB project and choose Properties, there is a tab "SQLCMD Variables"

Enter "$(ServerName)" as variable and something as default value.

Then you need to open your EVERY .publish.xml in XML editor to insert the following code after PropertyGroup part:

    
        [YourVersionOfServer]
    

[YourVersionOfServer] should be equal to the result of @@servername on each of your servers.

The final .publish.xml might look like:

Then you should wrap you conditional code in pre and post deployment files with:

if @@servername = '$(ServerName)'
begin
    ... code for specific server
end

Thus you can guarantee that the right code hits the right server