Install with SSMS

Introduction

SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) is a free, integrated development environment (IDE) for SQL Server. You can read more about SSMS in Microsoft Docs

Prerequisites

1. SQL Server Management Studio that supports DacPac deployment must be installed prior to installation. This can either be on a client PC or server.

Installation

Download the required release from our GitHub Releases and unzip. In this example we are using C:\Temp

Connect to the desired SQL Server, right click on Databases and select Deploy Data-Tier Application:

SSMS Deploy Data-tier Application

Find the SQLWATCH.dacpac you have downloaded and unzipped

DacPac deploy set source package path

Specify database name, default and recommended is SQLWATCH:

DacPac deploy set target database name

Click next for a summary screen and Next one more time to execute deployment. It can take a minute or two:

DacPac deploy summary screen