SQLPackage.exe publish properties not working as expected

Paul Hernandez 631 Reputation points Microsoft Employee
2021-03-30T13:30:55.247+00:00

Hi everyone,
I am deploying a database project using the generated DACPAC and SQLPackage.

I am facing an unexpected behaviour when excluding object types while publishing.

If I enter the excluded objects using the "plural" property ExcludeObjectTypes, the deployment is failing.

Example (not working): 

sqlpackage /Action:Publish /p:ExcludeObjectTypes=Users;Permissions

Error message: Permissions: command not found

However, if I specify the objects individually with the "singular" property, then it works 

sqlpackage /Action:Publish /p:ExcludeObjectType=Users /p:ExcludeObjectType=Permissions

I would like to know if I am doing something wrong or there is a bug in the tool.

Target database is a Synapse Analytics SQL Pool Database and SQLPackage version is the latest.

Kind regards,
Paul

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  1. Tom Phillips 17,716 Reputation points
    2021-03-30T18:14:35.677+00:00

    Try: 

    sqlpackage /Action:Publish /p:ExcludeObjectTypes="Users;Permissions"

    You are running sqlpackage via PowerShell which uses ; as a command seperator.

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  1. Guoxiong 8,126 Reputation points
    2021-03-30T13:51:46.41+00:00

    From the article "SqlPackage Publish parameters, properties, and SQLCMD variables", you can see the difference between ExcludeObjectType and ExcludeObjectTypes. When you try to exclude an object, you should use ExcludeObjectType=Object_Type. If you want to exclude multiple object types, you need to use ExcludeObjectTypes=List_of_Objects_Delimited_by_Semicolon.

  2. CarrinWu-MSFT 6,851 Reputation points
    2021-03-31T03:37:27.24+00:00

    Hi @Paul Hernandez ,

    It seems that this will work find if you use a comma instead of a semicolon-delimited, please try it. Also, you could get more information from this link, see below:
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    Best regards,
    Carrin

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