Updating the Data API Builder

I was updating my session for the Data API Builder (DAB) recently, mostly to work with the MCP server capabilities. As I was trying to get this working, I realized that the MCP capabilities were newer than my DAB version. I had v1.4

Wow, that’s old. The Overview page for the SQL Server MCP site says v1.7 is needed and 2.0+ has bug fixes. I need an update.

I had this in my slide deck, but the dotnet tool is used to update the DAB. The command is

dotnet tool update –global Microsoft.DataApiBuilder

This showed a download and then in a few minutes it was done. I could see I had an updated version.

And an MCP server!

A Further Update

I checked a few weeks later and couldn’t remember the command, but I decided to try the install command. That worked as well, and I got an even newer, 2.0.12, version.

Still no timestamps from the logs, but I’m every hopeful.