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ned.bush@ky.gov
Have pop-up screens (My Projects, Compare Progress, Save Script, etc.) open up on the same display as the main program when program is running on a computer with multiple displays.
I've noticed that if I'm running SQL Compare or SQL Data Compare and move it to my secondary display, it still tries to open up pop-up dialogs on the primary display. This can be annoying, especially if it has been a little while since I used the program and I forget it does this and can't spot why program seems to have stopped responding to mouse clicks. Also, when the…
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Allow option to not script logins when generating script and also add check for existing users to avoid errors
I was trying to create a copy of the development DB schema into local server. I got errors and warnings. The error I got was in the section of code that created the login and then attempted to create a user (myself). I didn't sent this error as it contained some confidential info. There also needs to be a way to remove things like login names from the generated email.
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Correct order when renaming column and adding column with the old name
After explicitly fixing column mapping, I encountered an error when renaming an existing column and then adding a new column using the old name (different casing).
SQL Compare had scripted the column add before the rename.
SQL Compare needs to be able to detect the conflict and script the rename before the column add.1 vote -
Reports created with /ReportAllObjectsWithDifferences should indicate filtered items
I had a panic moment after forgetting that the /rad option was added.
The report made it look like all production users had been removed!Please change the color to a lighter or darker shade and add a "filtered" icon with tooltip that clearly explains that the change was not applied due to filters or exclude/include commandline options.
Kids, don't play tricks on your peers with this option!
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Enhance 'Force Column Order' to 'Force Column Numbers'
Sometimes tables can differ in system column metadata (sys.columns) even if they looks completely identical - for example, if I drop a column in a middle of a table. After copying the table to another DB a column id for a half of columns will be different. But some frameworks or applications we use, rely on it, and require reconfiguration / rebuild even on a such a minor change.
It will be great to have a feature 'Force Column Numbers' to preserve column id's for table or view on deploy.3 votes -
3 votes
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Decrypting object performance (batch DBCC PAGE calls)
I frequently need to "generate scripts folder" against large (10k+ objects) databases including encrypted objects (thousands of encrypted stored procs).
A recent run on a (50ms rtt) vpn link took 2+ hours to complete.
It appears that object decryption performance appears to be bottlenecked on
performing 3 round trips to read a single db page, specifically:batch 1: dbcc traceOn(3604)
batch 2: dbcc page(DB, 1, 6573692, 2)
batch 3: dbcc traceOff(3604)
batch 4: dbcc traceOn(3604)
batch 5: dbcc page(DB, 1, 6573694, 2)
batch 6: dbcc traceOff(3604)I think batching page reads (and eliminating many traceon/traceoff commands) would make object decryption…
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Ability to define two SQL logins as being the same
We have separate SQL Server service accounts for each environment. For example, saSQL01prod and saSQL01test and saSQL01dev. We want to ensure that the same permissions in PROD exist in TEST. However, now, SQL Compare wants us to create the saSQL01prod account and remove the saSQL01test account to equalize.
What we wish to happen is that it compare the permissions of the saSQL01prod account in our PROD environment to the saSQL01test account in our TEST environment and generate the compare based off that.
For example, saSQL01…
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Object permissions in separate files instead of inside object definition
Presently, when syncing database to folder, all object permissions are stored inside object definition files. We would like to change the way permissions are stored; we would like to have an option to store object permissions in separate files.
For example, the following entry appears in dbo.A.sql file:
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[A]
(
[b] [int] NULL
) ON PRIMARY
GO
GRANT SELECT ON [dbo].[A] TO [role_x]We save data into folders which are then checked into GIT as branches. Or goal is to be able to track all table changes in branches before merging into master branch, which is automatically deployed…
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Separate ifg in the SQL Compare Options
Please break out the ifg switch in SQL Compare Options so file groups are separate from partition schemes and partition functions. Maybe ifg only ignores file groups, and create a second name ifp (or whatever) that would ignore only partition schemes and funtions.
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Database scoped credentials are missing
SQL Compare ignore database scoped credentials. So you wont be able to create external data source from generated script. It's clear that password is not accessible. But if you prepare create statement with data available from sys.databasescopedcredentials and let us fill out secret it will be much better then to skip this object.
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Left justify both Object Name columns
We prefix our objects with certain characters, so to right-justify the left Source "Object Name" column names makes it hard to visually read down the list of objects to find something in particular.
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Rebuild partition instead of dropping & recreating primary key when only changing data compression
SQL Compare currently attempts to drop and recreate a primary when changing compression.
REBUILD PARTITION ALL WITH (DATA COMPRESSION PAGE|ROW|NONE
would be more efficient and less intrusive since, among other things, it doesn't require dropping and recreating all foreign keys.2 votes -
Open only once MS SQL Server Management Studio
Instead of opening SSMS every time I create a new script with the DEPLOY button, it would be nice to check if SSMS is already openned and then switch to it instead of opening a new SSMS each time, at the end of the day I have 20 SSMS open.
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Compare the OPTIMIZE_FOR_SEQUENTIAL_KEY property of an Index
By default this is 'off' in SQL 2019. But we have found some tables have significant performance improvements for load if its 'on'. Thus tuning requires these indexes to be on. For SQL Compare to remain useful it needs to highlight were where there is a difference in the property - and support deployments with the property to retain it as on.
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SQL Compare should support Always Encrypted
I made a copy of a database for my application and implemented SQL Always Encrypted in the copy database. I did a compare back to the original, intending to get a deployment script to get those changes back into the original DB and SQL Compare isn't seeing the details of the columns related to encryption. I saw a message board post that indicated this isn't supported, but would like to request that support for this be added
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Tab size should be configurable
The comparison window seems to use a hard-coded value of 8 spaces for tab characters. The SSMS default value is currently 4 spaces per tab. So things that align just fine in SSMS are always wacky when displayed in SQL Compare. Couldn't you make this a user-configurable option?
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Excluding a role in v. 14 should exclude its permissions as was the case for v. 13
Using the SQL Compare v. 13 CLI to exclude a role that exists only in the target database used to also skip permissions granted to that role. The resulting script did not revoke the role's permissions in the target. Now, in v. 14 (14.4.11.17350), excluding the role only keeps the role from being dropped. The resulting script revokes all permissions granted to that role in the target. We think this new behavior represents a defect that should be fixed. See my support request 225533. I am told there is a bug report that addresses this issue: SC-10183. However, I don't…
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Include option to only include diffs
The idea here is produce a summary - that is the content focuses on the changes.
For example:
For new objects - indicate "new", with one-line description - but do not include definition
For deleted objects - indicate "removed"
For changed objects - only the show the "diff" with a little context instead of the complete definition.1 vote
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