In the latest release of SQL Compare, we’ve added a brand new way to examine the differences between two objects in your database. Until now, SQL Compare has relied on the SQL difference viewer to convey the differences between an object in the source database and its counterpart in the target database: Don’t worry,... Read more
We can use the SQL Compare Pro command line with PowerShell to automate the process of creating a new build script for a version of the database, from the object scripts in the VCS. However, what if we want to include static data in the build? This article describes how to the use the... Read more
Our goal is to show how to use SQL Compare Pro command line with PowerShell to automate the following processes: Getting a new database into version control, or updating the object scripts in the VCS to reflect the latest database changes Creating a new build script for a database version, from the object scripts... Read more
In this article, I’ll be showing you how 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. In other words, for any database object that exists in both databases but with differences, the object’s definition in... Read more
I used to work at JD Edwards, and in one of our ERP products we had a cumbersome database schema. There were tables like this: These were the tables that held various information in the system. Trying to find data was an exercise in frustration, even for those of us that were familiar with... Read more
In SQL Server 2016, Microsoft introduced support for system-versioned temporal tables. Temporal tables are a database feature that provides information about data stored at any point in time, rather than only the data that is correct at that specific moment. Why are temporal tables needed? Simply put, they make it much easier to analyze... Read more
This is the third post in a three-part series that explains how to maintain a single declarative source of truth in version control for a SQL Server database, which can be deployed to multiple environments, despite the fact that some environments have known customizations. In part 1, I explained how to manage objects that... Read more
My previous article, How to compare two DacPacs using SQL Compare, described how to use the SQL Compare GUI to compare two DacPacs, and generate a synchronization script. This article takes it one step further, showing how to use PowerShell and the SQL Compare command line to automate the generation of a synchronization script,... Read more
A database comparison tool like SQL Compare removes a lot of the pain behind the task of comparing SQL Server database schemas, generating a synchronization script, and then deploying the changes from the source to the target database. However, depending on how you have SQL Compare configured, there may still be some manual work... Read more
When I attended PASS Summit recently, I sat down with Chris Yates, Assistant Vice President and Database Administration Manager of Republic Bank, to understand more about their day-to-day development tasks and how Redgate tools have helped improve their development practices. This is their story. “In a previous life, SQL Server database comparisons and deployments... Read more
