VSTS online automated build no agent could be found - visual-studio

Question

For a manual build on vsts online deploying to azure things work fine.
But when I trigger from my repo, the same build, I get this:
"No agent could be found with the following capabilities: msbuild, visualstudio, sqlpackage"
If I go to my Build def->General Tab

Answer 1

There isn’t the SqlPackage capability in Hosted VS2017 agent. I submit a user voice here: VSTS SQL Package deploy with Hosted VS2017 agent.
The workaround is that you can deploy sql package to azure through PowerShell.
param(
[string]$publish_profile,
[string]$path_to_snapshots,
[string]$database
)
$psPath=$PSScriptRoot
write-output $psPath
Add-Type -Path "$psPath\lib\Microsoft.SqlServer.Dac.dll"
$dacProfile = [Microsoft.SqlServer.Dac.DacProfile]::Load($publish_profile)
$dacService = new-object Microsoft.SqlServer.Dac.DacServices($dacProfile.TargetConnectionString)
$files = Get-ChildItem "$path_to_snapshots\*.dacpac"
Write-Output $path_to_snapshots
Write-Output $files.Length
foreach ($file in $files)
{
$fileName = $file.Name
Try
{
Write-output $fileName
$dp = [Microsoft.SqlServer.Dac.DacPackage]::Load($file.FullName)
$dacService.Deploy($dp, $database, $true)
Start-Sleep -s 300
}
Catch
{
Write-Host "$fileName deployment has been failed" -foregroundcolor "red"
$Error | format-list -force
Write-Host $Error[0].Exception.ParentContainsErrorRecordException;
Break
}
}
Related thread: Deploy Dacpac packages via power shell script to Azure SQL Server

Answer 2

I added a copy of this Microsoft script to my pipeline which returns the path to SQLPackage.exe on the agent.
https://github.com/Microsoft/azure-pipelines-tasks/blob/master/Tasks/SqlAzureDacpacDeploymentV1/FindSqlPackagePath.ps1
At time of writing the returned path is:
C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\150\DAC\bin\SqlPackage.exe
If at any points the location changes in theory it should just be a case of updating it to the new location reported by the Script.