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12 December 2025

SQL Compare & SQL Data Compare v16: Introducing SQL Server 2025 Support, Enhanced Security & More

SQL Compare and SQL Data Compare v16 introduces SQL Server 2025 support and improved credential security. Plus, SSMS 22 integration is coming soon. Read more

21 November 2017

21 November 2017

How to Customize Schema Comparisons using Auto Map in SQL Compare

How the table automapping feature works in SQL Compare, and how to control its behavior. Read more

6 October 2017

6 October 2017

Remembering passwords in SQL Compare and SQL Data Compare

SQL Compare or SQL Data Compare can automatically populate your SQL Server credentials, if you wish. Just check the "Remember credentials" box, and passwords will now be stored in two places: the Windows Credential Store and your project file, if you save one. Read more

SQL Compare

SQL Data Compare

Windows Credential Store

Matthew Chandler

4 October 2017

Matthew Chandler

4 October 2017

How to deploy changes to Azure SQL Database using SQL Compare and Azure Active Directory

Describing SQL Compare's built-in Active Directory Authentication mode, which makes it easier and more secure to, for example, deploy schema changes from version control to an Azure SQL Database. Read more

Azure Active Directory

SQL Compare

Jamie Wallis

18 September 2017

Jamie Wallis

18 September 2017

How to examine differences with SQL Compare Summary View and SQL View

Jamie Wallis introduces the new Summary View, which is a tab that sits alongside SQL View and provides a more concise breakdown of the differences between two objects. Read more

SQL Compare

Jamie Wallis

1 August 2017

Jamie Wallis

1 August 2017

A whole new way to see differences in SQL Compare

SQL Compare 12.4 adds the Summary view, a tab that sits alongside SQL view and provides a more concise breakdown of the differences between two objects. Read more

10 April 2017

10 April 2017

How to deploy a database plus static data using SQL Compare and SQL Data Compare

Tony Davis shows how to get a database, plus any static data, into source control, and then uses the "/include:StaticData" switch in the SQL Compare Pro command line, fromPowerShell, to automate the process of creating a new build script. Read more

27 March 2017

27 March 2017

Automating database deployments to and from source control using SQL Compare and PowerShell

How to use SQL Compare Pro command line with PowerShell to automate the processes of getting a new database into source control, updating the source with the latest database changes, creating a new build script for a database version, and creating a deployment script to synchronize an existing database with… Read more

22 March 2017

22 March 2017

Automatically keeping ‘hotfix’ and production database schemas in sync

How to use the SQL Compare Pro command line to automatically compare the schema of two versions of the same database, and then subsequently deploy to the target database any differences detected in the source database. Read more

SQL Compare

Steve Jones

17 March 2017

Steve Jones

17 March 2017