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  1. I've encountered this, especially with default constraints. I generate a change script. I run it on a system. Something happens that causes the script to fail. I fix the problem, but then it fails the second time because the default constraints it is trying to create are already there!

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  2. Hi

    I shortly was using the newest version of Data compare and Sql Compare. And I find it a bit too dark, to crowded. Hard to find the different options to compare, deploy.

    I today migrated to a new machine and installed back again version 11.3 and that make me happier than the last version. Also my co workers using the new version are not happy about the user interface

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  3. Both SQL Source Control and SQL Compare tell me how many objects are excluded by the filter. I can click on the link (button in SQL Compare) to see my filter settings. What I do not seem to be able to do is view the diff for excluded objects. Can you please add a button (or similar) to the UI of SQL Source Control and SQL Compare, that will allow me to toggle the diff table content between included and excluded objects.

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  4. In previous versions of SQL Compare the /force switch would create the entire file path that was specified for the report output. In version 13, if any of the path does not exist the report generation fails for a 'Could not find a part of the path' error. Only if the path and the file already exist, will the /force switch work.

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  5. When I print an interactive html report to a color printer, some texts and images of the header come out printed, and the green, red and yellow colors of the types of differences are lost.

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  6. plz, add filtering object names by wildcards(* ?) in find box.
    thanks...

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  7. I just updated to SQL Compare version 13.4.0.6563 and tried to generate an update script for a database.

    Several tables should have had two columns added to them but there seems to be a bug as the generated script followed these steps for each:

    1 Drop primary key
    2 Drop table
    3 Add columns to table

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  8. In the latest version (updated this morning), the swap button changes server names, etc. shown in the header part of the page (source and target), but leaves info filled in on the bottom half alone. Can be confusing as to which server/database/etc. will be the source/left side and which will be the target/right side.

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  9. just like in sql data compare, it would be nice to compare a view with a table.

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  10. The behavior of the "Ignore whitespace" option was changed in version 13.3:
    SC-9967: "Ignore whitespace" option is no longer applied to string literals

    This option would retain legacy functionality by adding the ability to still ignore whitespace in string literals.

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  11. Currently there are 3 output options when running sql compare via the command line /quiet /verbose and the default. I'd like to see an option between the default and verbose logging similar to the "Summary view" present in the main application.
    For example: I'd like to see the tablename that has diffs (default option) AND the name of the index on said table that is different (new summary option), but not the entire table definition (verbose option).

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  12. If indexes & partition schemas/functions are set to be ignored, SQL Compare should not attempt to query them. Additionally would be helpful for other object types that are ignored so that the queries are streamlined to only what is selected for compare. This would be a performance enhancement, the pain is where there is a high number of partitions where the intention is just to compare something simple like stored procedures and UDFs.

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  13. After you specify a file path and save your filter.
    Delete the directory where the filter was saved
    Click the "Save" button again and you get an exception. Need a "Save As" function or something to override the setting you set last time.

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  14. SQL Compare Flagged a difference between Test and Production Store Procedure but I could not see where. I had to use notepad++ compare to see a Single Space. Please make this visible in the next release.

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  15. I have found that User Defined Data Types are not scripted after stored procedures that use that data type.

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  16. There are some changes that are riskier than others, not because of the type of change, but because of the object. For example, some changes require rebuilding a table or index. This can be a simple process if there are a few hundred rows, but it's a risky, slow process if there are a few billion.

    It would be nice to add a "risk" value to certain tables, so that when I see a list of changes, I can determine if this particular object ought to be separated out as a different deployment.

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  17. When SQL Server sets up merge replication it creates a rowguid column to maintain integrity between the tables of the publisher and subscriber. Typically this setup doesn't exist in non-prod environments which ends up generating false positives differences.

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  18. Many people have stated this but the side by side html output was more helpful and saved more time for us.

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  19. Please give an option to ignore Recore tables creation. I am trying to use SQLCompare in DevOps model to avoid long release timings. But if there is any data type change to a huge table then current concept of creation of recovery tables is disabling all the FK's, removing indexes and eventually creating a new table. This is very long process and not benefitting the projects. There should be an option to avoid the creation of Recovery tables. Please think in that perspective.

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  20. I'm going through an exercise of determining object changes between versions of an app suite containing 55 databases.
    It would be nice to be able to specify which databases to compare during a single run instead of processing it one database at a time.

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