Unable to Read Fabric Warehouse/Lakehouse DACPAC using Notepad or any Editor

Hi yashaswi_raj ,
Thanks for reaching out to Community Forum.

This is expected behavior and not an issue with Microsoft Fabric. A DACPAC exported from a Fabric Warehouse or Lakehouse is not a plain text file, so opening it in Notepad will always look unreadable. In Fabric, a DACPAC represents a packaged database schema that is meant to be consumed by supported tools, not viewed directly as text. The correct way to inspect or work with it is to import it into a SQL Database Project (for example using Visual Studio or Azure Data Studio) or use SqlPackage to extract or deploy the schema. This confirms that the export itself is valid the limitation is simply that Notepad cannot interpret the DACPAC format.

Supporting Fabric documentation :

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/fabric/database/sql/overview

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/fabric/database/sql/sqlpackage

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/fabric/data-warehouse/develop-warehouse-project

Thank you.