Import Bacpac into SQL Azure using Code executed from the cloud

 
North Central US    https://ch1prod-dacsvc.azure.com/DACWebService.svc
South Central US    https://sn1prod-dacsvc.azure.com/DACWebService.svc
North Europe          https://db3prod-dacsvc.azure.com/DACWebService.svc
West Europe           https://am1prod-dacsvc.azure.com/DACWebService.svc
East Asia             https://hkgprod-dacsvc.azure.com/DACWebService.svc
Southeast Asia https://sg1prod-dacsvc.azure.com/DACWebService.svc
Northwest US         http://dacdc.cloudapp.net/DACWebService.svc
 
Once we have setup, a service reference it will be uncomplicated to execute an import. You will need to have already uploaded the bacpac file to Blob storage to perform the import. The first thing we need to do is create our service client. I have named my service reference ImportService. 

 

var client = new ImportService.DACWebServiceClient();

Once the service client has been created, we need to create an ImportInput object and populate it with the appropriate values. 

 

var importInput = new ImportService.ImportInput();

importInput.AzureEdition = "Web";

importInput.DatabaseSizeInGB = 5;

importInput.ConnectionInfo = new ImportService.ConnectionInfo();

importInput.ConnectionInfo.DatabaseName = "YourDatabaseName";

importInput.ConnectionInfo.Password = "YourPassword";

importInput.ConnectionInfo.ServerName = "YourServerName";

importInput.ConnectionInfo.UserName = "YourUserName";

 
Now we need to setup or blob credentials. You can use either a shared access key or your storage access key. 

 

var credentials = new ImportService.BlobStorageAccessKeyCredentials();

credentials.StorageAccessKey = "YourStorageAccessKey";

credentials.Uri = "Your Uri to the bacpac located in blob storage";

 

var sharedCredentials = new ImportService.BlobSharedAccessKeyCredentials();

sharedCredentials.SharedAccessKey = "YourSharedAccessKey";

sharedCredentials.Uri = "Your Uri to the bacpac located in blob storage";

 
We then set the credentials on the importInput object.
 

importInput.BlobCredentials = credentials;

  

Once we have everything setup we just need to call the Import method with the inputimport object as a parameter.
 
client.Import(importInput);

 
This call also can be done asynchronously which I recommend. This should get you started using the import service. I will do a follow up with the export service.