It’s a tedious task to have to compare two versions of a SQL script, side by side, for example to find differences between the version of the script on Production, and the one on the Test system. As a developer, you must try to spot the real code differences in among the ‘noise’. The... Read more
We’ve recently added a feature to automatically populate your SQL Server credentials when you’re using SQL Compare or SQL Data Compare. If you check the Remember credentials box, passwords will now be stored in two places: the Windows Credential Store and your project file if you save one. The project file has long been... Read more
Microsoft introduced Azure Active Directory (AAD) as a secure way to manage credentials for access to the different offerings available on the Azure platform, including Microsoft Azure SQL Database. It integrates with existing on-premise Windows Server Active Directory, so users require only a single Windows credential for secure access to both on-premise SQL Server... Read more
Redgate has released a new version of SQL Compare which supports the very latest features in SQL Server 2017 like graph databases. SQL Compare is already the leading SQL Server database comparison tool and the added capability reflects the increasing interest in graph databases among SQL Server users. Read more
During the recent Redgate Hub Launch Livestream Steve Jones introduced the new Summary View, which is available now in SQL Compare. The brand new Summary View is a tab that sits alongside SQL View and provides a more concise breakdown of the differences between two objects. We have achieved this by getting rid of... Read more
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
