From 20+ seconds to 2 - faster SQL Database Project .dacpac deployments are finally here (preview)

If you have ever deployed a SQL Database Project (.sqlproj) or a .dacpac with SqlPackage, you know the drill: you kick off a publish against an empty or near-empty database, grab a coffee, and wait. Even for tiny schemas, every single publish reliably took 20+ seconds before anything actually happened on the server.

Source: https://erikej.github.io/dotnet/dacfx/sqlserver/sqlpackage/2026/08/06/faster-dacpac-deployments.html. 8 Sync News only summarizes and links out; content copyright belongs to the authors and original sources.