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Distributing DAC Metadata

Typically, you may have multiple environments, such as development, QA, production, and so on. When you make changes to the development environment, you test it, and then deliver it, exporting the whole environment and distributing it to the other environments. The data is exported as XML files, which are stored in the DAC\export directory on the client machine where the export is done.

To apply changes from the development environment to any other, you copy all of the XML files into the DAC\export folder and then import the data. To export the DAC metadata, follow the instructions in the procedure, Exporting DAC Metadata. To import the DAC metadata, follow the instructions in the procedure, Importing DAC Metadata.