Question

I have a deployment package that needs to run against about 3 different enviroments.

I want to specify a sql script to run (source) with the enviroments database (destiniation).

I don’t want to specify the connection string in the deploy script because it contains sql login info.

I would like to be able to read a setting from the destination for the connection string.

Can I mark this a parameter to be specified when unpackaging the deployment package on the server? If so, how so I use the parameter in the dest:sql=”connection string”?

Any suggestions would be great.

Answer 1

Scott Guthrie has a pretty good write up on this sort of thing here. He specifically mentions the changing of parameters both in prompts for the admin and in an automated fashion via the command line within deployment and/or automation scripts.