SQLPackage Deployment Failure

Question

I'm using an Azure DevsOps Release Pipeline, which has the Deploy DacPac step. It's failing with no useful error. Where do I even start trying to debug something like this?

2023-10-31T11:52:53.2467107Z ##[debug]Initializing deployment (Start) 
2023-10-31T11:52:53.2478476Z ##[debug]Initializing deployment (Complete) 
2023-10-31T11:52:53.2491000Z ##[debug]Analyzing deployment plan (Start) 
2023-10-31T11:52:53.2503313Z ##[debug]Analyzing deployment plan (Complete) 
2023-10-31T11:52:53.2515949Z ##[debug]Updating database (Start) 
2023-10-31T11:52:53.2527690Z ##[debug]An error occurred while the batch was being executed. 
2023-10-31T11:52:53.2540412Z ##[debug]Updating database (Failed) 
2023-10-31T11:52:53.2707612Z ##[debug]Time elapsed 0:00:28.40 

Answer 1

As a way to troubleshoot this issue, please try the following steps:

1. Check the logs of the deployment task for more information about the error. You can do this by enabling the debug mode in your pipeline, setting the variable system.debug to true, and then running the pipeline again. This will show more details about the execution of the task.
2. Based on the error message, there seems to be a successful connection to the database, but make sure you test the credentials to connect to the database using SQL Server Management Studio or PowerShell. Enable "Allow access to Azure services" on the Azure SQL firewall also.
3. Try using the /p:AllowIncompatiblePlatform option in SqlPackage.exe, in case the dacpac has some incompatibilities with Azure SQL.
4. Review the deployment options, parameters and settings in the task,