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  1. Project Options - option to ignore parameter default values

    Project Options - option to ignore parameter default values. i.e. @fundid INT = 150 and @fundid INT = 152 on 2nd db is diff, option to ignore as may want to have different defaults per db but otherwise check sp.

    8 votes
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  2. Make the Print Command on Deployment Scripts Optional

    Hello,
    We use your compare utility to deploy update's to our software. We have many many changes to our Tables/Views/Procs/etc.

    In each of our deployment scripts there is un-needed Print '......' & Go commands that we don't need.

    It would be nice to have the option of not having these print commands

    21 votes
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  3. Compare on object

    Need an option/ability to re-compare just one object like table, procedure,view or function etc. If my database contains 1000+ objects, if I modify one of them, there should be right click re-compare menu to just re-compare that one object. Instead of comparing the whole database. Comparing whole database take a bit of time when work remotely. Even though I have filters, it takes quite a bit of time.

    29 votes
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  4. Support for Replicated Databases

    I would like to push schema changes to a transactionally replicated database. Now, SQL Compare breaks replication when I push schema changes. Please add support for sprepladdcolumn and sorepldropcolumn rather than ALTER TABLE.

    117 votes
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  5. Make SQL Compare Three-part identifiers aware and filterable

    Not always a deployed database has the same name of the source database due to customers' naming conventions. So it'd be great if SQL Compare will be three-part identifiers aware, so that if you compare the same table from different named databases as following:

    SELECT *
    FROM MyDatabaseA.MyTable

    SELECT *
    FROM MyDatabaseB.MyTable

    SQL Compare will not show them as different if you want a three-part identifiers insensitive comparison.

    18 votes
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  6. Ignore final semicolons when comparing stored procedures

    As in title

    137 votes
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  7. Compare tab contents!

    I have yet to find a tool to compare the contents of two tabs in SSMS.
    Ideal would be the ability to run an executable on the temfiles of two tabs. So the user could use diffmerge or whatever they liked, But any diff-function would be greatly appreciated.

    I don't know if SQL Compare is the right place, but it could be.

    4 votes
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  8. Compare instance level information

    Like configuration settings, security info (logins, server roles...), linked servers, jobs, SSIS catalog info for SQL2012 (folders, environments, security, projects, packages...) etc.

    42 votes
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  9. Ability to Compare from a dacpac to a Database and generate sync scripts

    I understand that you have the ability to compare DBs to sqlproj but it would be nice to have it compare with a dacpac. That way I can build a project, persist that build number and deploy from that dacpac.

    6 votes
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  10. Ability to selectively ignore column defaults

    I'd like to be able to compare two databases, yet ignore certain column defaults in my comparison

    20 votes
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  11. Allow SQL Compare to ignore difference due to ALTER and CREATE

    When comparing a VS 2012 database project to a database, when the only difference is ALTER vs. CREATE (which happens because a stored procedure ALTER was executed directly, then saved) the comparison fails. An option to ignore this difference would be very handy.

    9 votes
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  12. Reuse Open SSMS for deployment scripts

    When selecting the option to open the deployment script in SSMS Compare opens a new instance of SSMS for each script that you generate.

    In place of that would it be possible to open the scripts in an existing SSMS instance that is open already? This would make things a lot easier when generating multiple scripts.

    35 votes
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  13. Add "use <<Database>>" as an option in SQL Data Compare

    This option exists in SQL Compare but not SQL Data Compare.

    4 votes
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  14. Add option to stop processing if the database in the USE statement doesn't exist

    If you run a script with option to use the "USE database" clause and the database doesn't exist the script will go ahead and attempt to run the script in the current database. This is usually "master" if you are in a new query window and if you only adding new items it will add them all to the master db.

    5 votes
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  15. Add a Rollback Script Save option for both SQL Compare & Data Compare

    In order to create a rollback script, we currently need to reverse the direction of deployment, save the rollback script, cancel the deployment, change the direction, then proceed with deployment in the correct direction. It would be great if the same screen on the Deployment Wizard would allow you to save BOTH a change script and a rollback script.

    103 votes
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  16. Choose source control label as a version of a data source

    Today, SQL Compare allows for two options when selecting a version of a source control data source - latest (head), or any other change set. It would be great if there was a third option: to select a version by label. We use labels as a means for controling which code is promoted from development to test to production. Anything ready to promote is labeled as “build ready.” It would be great to use this build ready label when selecting the version from the repository.

    57 votes
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  17. Compare (and migrate) Database Diagrams

    I'd love to see a function in SQL Compare to compare and migrate Database Diagrams. Especially between servers, but certainly on the same server.

    We use them all the time to work on the structure of the of our databases and I'd love to be able to see the same diagram when I'm working in Prod and Test as I do in Dev without having to bring the changes across manually.

    The code (for the easy case) is pretty simple.

    UPDATE MyDB.dbo.sysdiagrams
    SET definition = (
    SELECT definition
    from MyOtherDB.dbo.sysdiagrams
    WHERE name = MyDB')
    WHERE name = 'MyDB'

    17 votes
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  18. Compare against Database Projects

    It would be great to see SQL Compare support Visual Studio Database Projects (.sqlproj).

    Current if you choose Source Control | Scripts, you can point to the project folder, but then SQL Compare gets confused because it loads in extra .sql files (eg. the 'create database'.sql that gets put in the build output 'bin' folder).

    Selecting the 'Tables' sub-folder works more reliably (if just comparing tables!), but then pushing changes down to the files results in schema that no longer compiles because the SSDT tools require 'GO' separators between each DDL statement.

    5 votes
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  19. Sync a Database to a Source Control Repository

    We really need the ability to "sync" a database to VCS repository, not just compare. I know this limitation exists by design because conflicts can be missed, but we have a scenario that demands it. We have batch check-ins that can take up to a half a day to commit manually.

    10 votes
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  20. Include tables in "use drop and create instead of alter" comparison behavior

    Provide additional option to "use drop and create instead of alter" so that tables can be reconstructed blindly

    32 votes
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