Skip to content

SQL Compare

Welcome to the SQL Compare feature suggestion list. Find out more information about SQL Compare at http://www.red-gate.com/products/sql-development/sql-compare/.

If you have any questions, need help or have found a bug in SQL Compare, please visit the forums at https://forums.red-gate.com/viewforum.php?f=200 or our support portal.

SQL Compare

Categories

JUMP TO ANOTHER FORUM

252 results found

  1. Let me change the location of the users data folders. The application creates a folder inside the Documents folder. When I change the location in the Application options dialog still a folder inside the Documents folder is being used. I want my Documents folder not to be used by this application

    3 votes
    Vote

    We're glad you're here

    Please sign in to leave feedback

    Signed in as (Sign out)
    You have left! (?) (thinking…)
    0 comments  ·  Admin →
    How important is this to you?

    We're glad you're here

    Please sign in to leave feedback

    Signed in as (Sign out)
  2. Please support Unicode. The current version can not display my descriptions of fields with Unicode.

    3 votes
    Vote

    We're glad you're here

    Please sign in to leave feedback

    Signed in as (Sign out)
    You have left! (?) (thinking…)
    0 comments  ·  Admin →
    How important is this to you?

    We're glad you're here

    Please sign in to leave feedback

    Signed in as (Sign out)
  3. Make script file an editable plain text file so we review, edit or programmatically generate the file.

    Once the script file is used, there is no good way to retrieve what were included in that file, especially if the included objects have been removed.

    It will help us keep track of changes across multiple scripts (SCP) over time.

    Make it an option to compress it in case it is a large deployment.

    3 votes
    Vote

    We're glad you're here

    Please sign in to leave feedback

    Signed in as (Sign out)
    You have left! (?) (thinking…)
    0 comments  ·  Admin →
    How important is this to you?

    We're glad you're here

    Please sign in to leave feedback

    Signed in as (Sign out)
  4. Should work on:

    how to simply install SQL Compare/SQLToolbelt on AWS EC2 instance (Windows/Linux based)?

    3 votes
    Vote

    We're glad you're here

    Please sign in to leave feedback

    Signed in as (Sign out)
    You have left! (?) (thinking…)
    0 comments  ·  Admin →
    How important is this to you?

    We're glad you're here

    Please sign in to leave feedback

    Signed in as (Sign out)
  5. 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.

    3 votes
    Vote

    We're glad you're here

    Please sign in to leave feedback

    Signed in as (Sign out)
    You have left! (?) (thinking…)
    0 comments  ·  Admin →
    How important is this to you?

    We're glad you're here

    Please sign in to leave feedback

    Signed in as (Sign out)
  6. 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…

    3 votes
    Vote

    We're glad you're here

    Please sign in to leave feedback

    Signed in as (Sign out)
    You have left! (?) (thinking…)
    0 comments  ·  Admin →
    How important is this to you?

    We're glad you're here

    Please sign in to leave feedback

    Signed in as (Sign out)
  7. 3 votes
    Vote

    We're glad you're here

    Please sign in to leave feedback

    Signed in as (Sign out)
    You have left! (?) (thinking…)
    0 comments  ·  Admin →
    How important is this to you?

    We're glad you're here

    Please sign in to leave feedback

    Signed in as (Sign out)
  8. 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
    Vote

    We're glad you're here

    Please sign in to leave feedback

    Signed in as (Sign out)
    You have left! (?) (thinking…)
    0 comments  ·  Admin →
    How important is this to you?

    We're glad you're here

    Please sign in to leave feedback

    Signed in as (Sign out)
  9. 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!

    3 votes
    Vote

    We're glad you're here

    Please sign in to leave feedback

    Signed in as (Sign out)
    You have left! (?) (thinking…)
    0 comments  ·  Admin →
    How important is this to you?

    We're glad you're here

    Please sign in to leave feedback

    Signed in as (Sign out)
  10. SQL Compare in some instances trims the whitespace characters at the beginning and end of object definitions. While in other instances it takes them into account.

    For example when comparing objects directly with IgnoreWhitespace = false it will show the whitespace differences at the end of the object being compared. (See attached screenshot of single direct object comparison)

    However, when you generate a script to based off this comparsion the script does not include the expected whitespace changes.

    SQLServer considers whitespaces at the end of object to be part of the object definition. SQLServer will include any whitespace characters until…

    3 votes
    Vote

    We're glad you're here

    Please sign in to leave feedback

    Signed in as (Sign out)
    You have left! (?) (thinking…)
    0 comments  ·  Admin →
    How important is this to you?

    We're glad you're here

    Please sign in to leave feedback

    Signed in as (Sign out)
  11. When starting SQL compare, a blue panel appears on the top notifying me about a new version. This panel hides the names of the database servers I am working with and that is problematic. I think that once I start working/touching anything in the SQL compare UI the ribbon should auto-hide so I will see the database server names I am working on.

    I know I could click install and be done with it but sometimes I am in the middle of something else which cannot wait and the notification is just in the way and I do not have…

    3 votes
    Vote

    We're glad you're here

    Please sign in to leave feedback

    Signed in as (Sign out)
    You have left! (?) (thinking…)
    How important is this to you?

    We're glad you're here

    Please sign in to leave feedback

    Signed in as (Sign out)
  12. Managing multiple projects is cumbersome with the modal windows that pop up. They also force a clunky workflow when copying credentials from a 3rd party manager to the popup windows.

    3 votes
    Vote

    We're glad you're here

    Please sign in to leave feedback

    Signed in as (Sign out)
    You have left! (?) (thinking…)
    0 comments  ·  Admin →
    How important is this to you?

    We're glad you're here

    Please sign in to leave feedback

    Signed in as (Sign out)
  13. Currently, the deployment wizard allows us to select referenced objects and referencing objects. It would be nice if these could be separated so there were two different options. My scenario is wanting to create a small testable DB and only bringing over the minimal amount of schema to get things working. Dependencies are clearly needed, but I don't need objects that rely on the objects deployed.

    3 votes
    Vote

    We're glad you're here

    Please sign in to leave feedback

    Signed in as (Sign out)
    You have left! (?) (thinking…)
    0 comments  ·  Admin →
    How important is this to you?

    We're glad you're here

    Please sign in to leave feedback

    Signed in as (Sign out)
  14. On Data Sources modal, make the Scripts folder dropdown box editable so the folder name can be edited/pasted without having to go into the open folder dialog box.

    3 votes
    Vote

    We're glad you're here

    Please sign in to leave feedback

    Signed in as (Sign out)
    You have left! (?) (thinking…)
    0 comments  ·  Admin →
    How important is this to you?

    We're glad you're here

    Please sign in to leave feedback

    Signed in as (Sign out)
  15. Sometimes databases are set up such that each schema is supposed to have the same objects, defined in the same way, as all the others. Ex: SchemaA.Table1, SchemaA.Table2, SchemaB.Table1, SchemaB.Table2, SchemaC.... This is used as an alternative to multiple databases. Unfortunately, not all objects are always set up the same and thus the need to compare them.

    SQL Compare will let you compare a database to itself, and you can use the "Owner mapping" tab to cross the schema names (e.g. map side 1 SchemaA to side 2 SchemaB), but the comparison has to go in both directions (also map…

    3 votes
    Vote

    We're glad you're here

    Please sign in to leave feedback

    Signed in as (Sign out)
    You have left! (?) (thinking…)
    0 comments  ·  Admin →
    How important is this to you?

    We're glad you're here

    Please sign in to leave feedback

    Signed in as (Sign out)
  16. Similar to the idea from Steve Hall for SQL Data Compare, SQL Compare should also get the ability to read backups compress by SQL Server.
    There is a feature for compressed backups, but unfortunately "this compression is not supported" if you try to read from a BAK with the standard compression of MSSQL.
    That would be very important to make partial restores and to have an efficient way to deal with the day-to-day tasks, because bih DBs cannot be handled without compression.

    3 votes
    Vote

    We're glad you're here

    Please sign in to leave feedback

    Signed in as (Sign out)
    You have left! (?) (thinking…)
    0 comments  ·  Admin →
    How important is this to you?

    We're glad you're here

    Please sign in to leave feedback

    Signed in as (Sign out)
  17. When I schema compare in order to copy a database, I often want to create a new database as target. Could it be possible to default the collation of the new database to the one of the already selected source? Or at least make it possible to see the collation of the source database right there in the tool? There are hundreds of collations to choose from, and mostly I get it wrong and then I have to await the compare process and go back and delete the new database and do it all over. Seems like an easy fix.…

    3 votes
    Vote

    We're glad you're here

    Please sign in to leave feedback

    Signed in as (Sign out)
    You have left! (?) (thinking…)
    0 comments  ·  Admin →
    How important is this to you?

    We're glad you're here

    Please sign in to leave feedback

    Signed in as (Sign out)
  18. Allow SQL Compare to use a remote Git repository as the source of a comparison.

    3 votes
    Vote

    We're glad you're here

    Please sign in to leave feedback

    Signed in as (Sign out)
    You have left! (?) (thinking…)
    0 comments  ·  Admin →
    How important is this to you?

    We're glad you're here

    Please sign in to leave feedback

    Signed in as (Sign out)
  19. 3 votes
    Vote

    We're glad you're here

    Please sign in to leave feedback

    Signed in as (Sign out)
    You have left! (?) (thinking…)
    1 comment  ·  Admin →
    How important is this to you?

    We're glad you're here

    Please sign in to leave feedback

    Signed in as (Sign out)
  20. Cada vez que é feita uma comparação de database aumenta o uso da memória. Só liberar a memória quando sai e volta pra aplicação.

    2 votes
    Vote

    We're glad you're here

    Please sign in to leave feedback

    Signed in as (Sign out)
    You have left! (?) (thinking…)
    0 comments  ·  Admin →
    How important is this to you?

    We're glad you're here

    Please sign in to leave feedback

    Signed in as (Sign out)
  • Don't see your idea?