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How to create new (missing) columns for entities in your Data Export Service Azure SQL database

Usually the Data Export Service (DES) automatically picks up changes on entities and creates new fields/columns in the Azure SQL database that is connected to your DES profile. Our experience was that this automatism is not always reliable thus we had to come up with a workaround. Microsoft Support suggested us to create missing columns on the export database ourselves manually, which I did. As there is currently no other official documentation on this topic I thought I should share this article with the rest of our awesome community. 1. Completely recreate the entity table The 1st approach to solve this issue would be to go inside your DES profile and deselect the target entity from the list of entities to sync and save the changes. Next delete the target entities tables and user defined table types with the script provided here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/admin/replicate-data-microsoft-azure-sql-database#how-to-delete-data-export-profile-tables-and-stored-procedu