title: How to fix slow deployment to SQL Server 2014 in an Azure VM from Visual Studio
body: <p>When I had a regular server located in my country (Sweden) running SQL Server 2008 the deployment of my SQL Database Project in Visual Studio took about 20 seconds. After I changed to a SQL Server 2014 running on an Azure VM located in California the deployment takes roughly 2 minutes. </p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/LtphY.png" alt="Data Tools Operations"></p>
  
  <p>The first step is the one that takes time, that is 'Creating publish preview' which takes 2 minutes.</p>
  
  <p>Is there any way to speed up this process? I still want to deploy through VS and not create a script that I manually have to execute on the SQL server.</p>