Latest SSDT vs. SqlPackage incompatibility for SQL Server 2014

Question

One of our build servers has just been updated to the latest \"Microsoft SQL Server Update for database tooling\" (version 12.0.60629.0) and is now incompatible with the ver

Answer 1

This is an issue introduced in a recent SSDT update. It has been fixed internally and is targeted for inclusion in the next (16.4) release of SSDT. SSDT releases are initially released via the SSDT download page with notifications on the SSDT Team Blog, and then roll out over Visual Studio Extensions and Updates within 2-3 weeks (as this goes on a separate VS-wide schedule).

• Note: For VS2013 releases please go to the "Previous Releases" page on the download site. SSDT continues to be updated for VS2013 but the download page is optimized for users to get the latest version of Visual Studio.

Disclosure: I work on the SSDT team

Answer 2

Install the latest DacFx on the build server or change from using the sqlpackage.exe in the msi to the nuget version of the DacFx usnig:

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/ssdt/2016/08/22/releasing-ssdt-with-visual-studio-15-preview-4-and-introducing-ssdt-msbuild-nuget-package/

If this makes dacpac's not backwards compatible then I would raise a connect item for it and see if it a bug, if not it would be good if there was notification of this sort of thing and a connect item should get that rolling.

Ed