Building and Deploying Changes to tables using the SQL Database Projects extension

Applies to: SQL Server Azure SQL Database Azure SQL Managed Instance

With the help of the SQL Database Projects extension, SQL projects (including tables, views, and stored procedures) can be edited without the need to be connected to a server instance in Azure Data Studio. The tutorial below shows you how to:

1. Create a SQL Database Project of the AdventureWorks2022 database.

2. Make and deploy changes to a table in the AdventureWorks2022 database using SQL Database Projects and confirming this change in the locally connected server instance where this database resides.

This article requires the AdventureWorks2022 sample database, which you can download from the Microsoft SQL Server Samples and Community Projects home page.

You will also need to have the SQL Database Projects extension installed. Refer to the SQL Database Projects documentation to learn more about this extension.

Create a SQL Database Project

1. Navigate to the AdventureWorks2022 database object located in the object explorer, right-click on it and select Create Project from Database:

   

2. Select the location in which you want to store your Target project in and name the file containing the project to your preference. You can also configure the Folder structure settings to any of the provided options in the drop-down. In this tutorial, we will use the Schema/Object type folder structure. When done, select Create. When this project has been extracted, you will see a Extract project files succeeded message.

3. From the Azure Data Studio sidebar menu, select the Database Projects icon to open the SQL Database Projects extension. Navigate to the database project folder you created. Then, in the Person schema folder in this project, navigate to the Tables folder, and expand the drop-down of this folder. Right-click and open any of the tables in the designer mode to open the table design of this table. In this example, we work on the Person.sql table.

   

   Note

   Please note that the project file's location could vary depending on the folder structure defined in Step 2 above.

Deploy Changes to the Database from the Project

1. The original table shows the table design of the Person table with thirteen (13) column names, starting from BusinessEntityID and ending with ModifiedDate. Add another column named Citizenship of type nvarchar(50) and publish this change:

2. From the file menu in the Database Projects, right-click on the project root node in which your project resides, and select Build to build this project. You should see a success or error message in the output terminal for a successful or failed build. When finished, right-click this same folder and select Publish to publish this project to the AdventureWorks2022 database in your local host server connection.

   

   Note

   Please note that you must be connected to your local host for this step. This can be done by clicking the plug icon in Publish Project dialog box.

3. Exit the SQL Database Projects view. Then, go to the object explorer in your server connection and navigate to the Tables folder of AdventureWorks2022 database. Open the table design of the table you made changes to and confirm the change made. In this case, we added a new column, Citizenship to the Person.Person table:

   

Next steps

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