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  1. 23 votes
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      2 comments  ·  Schema Compare  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
    • Allow partial compare of schemas based on naming convention

      We manage ERP systems with larg schemas (150.000 - 200.000 objects) where only a small proportion - the custom objects - should be under source control / schema compared.

      To enable a decent use of Schema Compare for these systems, we would need to be able to compare schemas partially based on naming convention. Multiple assignments per schema should be possible, e.g. we want to match all objects for schema ABC matching the naming convention EE% and FF%

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        1 comment  ·  Schema Compare  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
      • Include materialized views in the schema compare

        It seems materialized views are not included in the compare. Or am I missing something?

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          2 comments  ·  Schema Compare  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
        • Rename column - instead of drop and create

          If a column is renamed, Schema Compare for Oracle sees this as a drop and create, so during the table rebuild data is preserved asides from the “new” column.

          Could you make this work similarly to SQL Compare and execute a rename instead?

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            0 comments  ·  Schema Compare  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
          • The function of Schema Compare that compares schemas with script folders has the problems that it ignores all extentions different than sql.

            It would be useful to support files with different extensions, either by allowing to configure ignored extensions (all other will be treated as sql) or by allowing to configure extensions for specific types of objects.

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              0 comments  ·  Schema Compare  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
            • Synonym comparison limitations?

              I have a schema where synonyms are not being compared correctly. In particular this is a synonym that refers to a remote object. Is this a known limitation of Schema Compare?

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                0 comments  ·  Schema Compare  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →

                Hi – thanks for the feedback. There is some basic support for synonyms in Schema Compare, but without more detail it’s hard to say how the tool should behave in this scenario.

                If you could provide some more details of the issue, and describe what you were expecting to see in the comparison results, that would be really useful.

                If you’d prefer not to post the data in this forum, please email it to oracle@red-gate.com and we’ll get back to you.

              • Allow limiting the deployment to only differences and objects missing , without project , at command line

                I must prevent to drop any tables, because the database may contains other tables for another application.
                And yes , they are in same schema.

                I need to deploy database changes on multiple databases, at client site, from a single snapshot.

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                  0 comments  ·  Schema Compare  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                • Bug in compare with virtual column

                  When I do a schema compare that has added a virtual column the alter table command that it generates has a bug in it.
                  The statement it generates is:
                  ALTER TABLE vendor_portal_user.vendor_contacts ADD (dbupper_username VARCHAR2(30 BYTE) GENERATED ALWAYS AS (UPPER("DBUSER_NAME")));

                  Which results in error:
                  ORA-54015: Duplicate column expression was specified

                  The correct syntax is:
                  alter table VENDOR_PORTAL_USER.VENDOR_CONTACTS add dbupper_username as (UPPER(DBUSER_NAME));

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                    0 comments  ·  Schema Compare  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                  • Schema Compare - Local Indexes

                    when migrating indexes in schema compare,bitmap indexes on a partitioned table fail - local clause missing

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