{"id":2515,"date":"2007-07-26T03:52:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-26T03:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test.simple-talk.com\/uncategorized\/sql-data-compare-6-alpha-due-out-next-week\/"},"modified":"2016-07-28T10:49:07","modified_gmt":"2016-07-28T10:49:07","slug":"sql-data-compare-6-alpha-due-out-next-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/blogs\/sql-data-compare-6-alpha-due-out-next-week\/","title":{"rendered":"SQL Data Compare 6 Alpha due out next week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After over 3 months of hard graft we&#8217;re getting ready to give you the chance to get your fingers on the Alpha of the next version of SQL Data Compare. We&#8217;re currently just doing some final install testing and hope to release it next week.<\/p>\n<p>Bear in mind the product is an Alpha and as such it isn&#8217;t actually complete yet, some of the features that didn&#8217;t make it yet are&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Backup before synch<\/li>\n<li>UI for project actions warnings<\/li>\n<li>UI to allow you to select backup files from multiple directories<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>However we&#8217;re really keen on getting people playing with the new features as early as possible. The main reason for the Alpha is to get your feedback on the compare to <b>Backup<\/b> feature that has been the main focus of our work to date. This will allow you to use data compare to compare to a SQL Server Backup file or Red Gate SQL Backup file (sqb) as if it was a live database. We would love for you to try it out on your backups, we&#8217;ve tested it against several hundred databases that we have in house but there&#8217;ll always be something missing so the earlier we get feedback the more time we have to fix it prior to release.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the other things we would like people looking at and giving opinions on is the improved usability features of the UI. For example projects are no-longer saved automagically when you don&#8217;t expect it, behaving instead much more like a standard windows project system so you can save your changes (or not) whenever you see fit. Also the &#8216;pivot&#8217; view that I&#8217;ve previously blogged about is something we&#8217;re keen for feedback on.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll be following the Alpha with a feature complete Beta in roughly a month and your feedback from the Alpha will be key in making it work how you need it to.<\/p>\n<p>So next week &#8211; watch this space&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After over 3 months of hard graft we&#8217;re getting ready to give you the chance to get your fingers on the Alpha of the next version of SQL Data Compare. We&#8217;re currently just doing some final install testing and hope to release it next week. Bear in mind the product is an Alpha and as&#8230;&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":167198,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/167198"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2515"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24484,"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2515\/revisions\/24484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2515"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}