Issue when populating synonyms

[mpalaric]

I've tried to compare the same schema in two Oracle 10g databases with tns connection (one is the dev database and the other is the integration db). When populating synonyms on database two, schemacompare aborts with the following exception in log:

12:13:24.364|Error |Object Model |3 |ProgressTask:Exception thrown while populating database baset1
System.InvalidCastException: Unable to cast object of type 'System.DBNull' to type 'System.String'.
à RedGate.Oracle.ObjectModel.DatabaseFactory.C()
à RedGate.Oracle.ObjectModel.DatabaseFactory.Populate()
à RedGate.Oracle.ObjectModel.OracleDatabase.Register(IScriptExecutor dbReader, IEnumerable`1 schemas)
12:13:25.161|Error |Engine Service |1 |:Exception in progress dialog
System.InvalidCastException: Unable to cast object of type 'System.DBNull' to type 'System.String'.
à RedGate.Oracle.ObjectModel.DatabaseFactory.C()
à RedGate.Oracle.ObjectModel.DatabaseFactory.Populate()
à RedGate.Oracle.ObjectModel.OracleDatabase.Register(IScriptExecutor dbReader, IEnumerable`1 schemas)
à RedGate.Oracle.ObjectModel.OracleDatabase.Register(String oracleHome, String connectionString, IEnumerable`1 schemas)
à f.<>c__DisplayClass2.<GetProgressMethod>b__0()
à RedGate.Shared.Controls.ProgressDialogEx.e()

I'm using version 1.0.0.475.

[alice.easey]

Hi,

Thanks for your post and for trying out the early access build.

Schema Compare for Oracle doesn't currently support synonyms, but we are planning to for v1.

We'd really appreciate it if you could send us some query snapshots of your database schema. You should find the RedGate.Oracle.CreateQuerySnapshot.exe program in the install directory of Schema Compare for Oracle. This tool stores the results of the queries we run against the database when registering.

It’s possible that the file generated might be quite big, so it might be necessary to zip it up before emailing it over. If it’s still too big to send, let me know and I’ll provide details of an FTP site.

Thanks,

Alice.