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Support direct upload of bacpac to new or existing database

Please allow us to support a direct upload of a bacpac file both when making a new database or on top of an existing database. Unless there's something I'm missing, to restore on top of an existing database I have to
1) move the bacpac into storage
2) make a new database from storage
3) rename/delete the old
4) rename the new

This process is VERY annoying.

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  • Francis Ouellet commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I also have this problem. I using ARM schema template to create à database (Premium P2) and I want to create a flat DB with a bacpac file. It working great when the database does not exist. But when I have already restored the database, IE when I deploy for second time. Azure Resource Management throw error: Exception Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Dac.Services.ServiceException:Target database is not empty. "The import operation can only be performed on an empty database" and quit.

    I using extensions resource nested to a databases resource with storageUri property to a bacpac stored on the artifactsLocation.

    I expected that when BD already provisioned ignore the extensions resource.

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