SQL Compare
Latest version: 10.0
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Release notes - version 10.xx
Version 10.0 - December 15, 2011
New features
- Rerunnable scripts - options to add existence checks and DROP/CREATE
- Recently used servers SQL Compare now remembers the last five connections
- Different tables and columns can be mapped, which means renames will no longer be regarded as DROP/CREATE
- Transaction Isolation Level can be specified as an application option
- New create database functionality from the Project Configuration dialog box, so you can quickly create test databases in SQL Compare
- Filters applied to SQL Source Control databases are now picked up by SQL Compare, and applied in the comparison
- You can now connect to SQL Server 2012 (Denali) servers
- New command line switches
For full details, see: What's new in SQL Compare 10?
Fixes
- SC-5244 (OPTION OPTIMIZE not recognized by the parser)
- SC-3996 (Disabled triggers now detected)
- SC-5056 (Database level extended properties behave strangely)
- SC-4930 (Compare always tries to enable change tracking even if already enabled (thus the script fails))
- SC-4938 (/Exclude:Additional ignored when syncing from the scripts folder)
- SC-4958 (Command line include/exclude options not working)
- SC-5089 (Foreign keys not scripted when /scriptfile is used from command line (db -> empty script folder)
- SC-4552 (Support: CL behaves differently to UI: with /argfile switch)
- SC-5014 (Table level compression not handled well when script isn't ours and when it is, there is an 'invisible difference')
- SC-5113 (Comparison reporting identical where SQL differences view highlight a difference (DATA_COMPRESSION = PAGE)
- SC-4772 (SQL Compare not listing dependencies on Stored Procedure)
- SC-5141 (Create snapshot function unavailable if starting Compare from SSIP)
- SC-4937 (Script error changing partition ranges)
- SC-4031 (Snapshot creation date on command line)
- SC-4974 (Commandline doesn't expose script folder creation options)
- SC-5292 (Make it easier to debug the commandline)
- SC-5310 (XML INDEX and PRIMARY XML INDEX on same column cause drop/recreate)
- SC-5243 (/Makescripts fail on case sensitive servers)
- SC-4706 (File format issue with Generate Comparison Results Report)
- SC-4980 (Partition function can be incorrectly read by script reader)
- SC-4633 (Identically-named partition index works in live database but not script reader)
- SC-5309 (Not creating a function in a sync script)
- SC-5328 (Change tracking re-enabled in alter statement unnecessarily)
- SC-4487 (Circular dependency issue: Table and Table function)
- SC-5242 (Next button does nothing during sync)
- SC-4674 (Warning for any dropped column)
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