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I am using Visual Studio 2012 Professional with SQL Server Data Tools with a SQL Server 2012 standard edition database instance.
I have been unable to locate a master.dacpac file on either my development machine or on the server hosting the SQL Server instance.

How can I obtain this file, so I can get rid of warnings like the following:

SQL71502: Procedure: <ProcedureName> has an unresolved reference to object [sys].[objects]
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You should be able to add a Database Reference. Click Project-> Add Database Reference. Click the radio button for System and then master. Code with references to objects in the master db should now build correctly.

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  • This used to be a major pain in older versions. I was surprised that it is this simple now, but that's all I needed to do. Thanks, Brian! – Mark Freeman Jul 9 '14 at 21:20
  • Things are definitely going in the right direction with SSDT. Glad it worked for you. – brian Jul 10 '14 at 21:13
  • I copied a solution from one dev computer to another and got this error. Had to remove the database reference and add it again. Worked great. – Glen Little Apr 10 '19 at 22:45
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The master.dacpac and msdb.dacpac files for SQL 2012 are usually installed at C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\Common7\IDE\Extensions\Microsoft\SQLDB\Extensions\SqlServer\100\SQLSchemas\

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