The SQL Data Compare GUI is the best way to review differences. I'd like a way to export my results to a file that can be re-imported for others to view, without having to go back through the comparison process.

Instead of putting all alter table operations into a single command, provide an option to have them split into multiple individual operations.

Instead of this:
ALTER TABLE JobTime ADD
UUIDPayWeek nvarchar (50) NULL,
XMLEquipment xml NULL,
XMLConsumables xml NULL;
GO

Do this:
ALTER TABLE JobTime
ADD UUIDPayWeek nvarchar (50) NULL
GO

ALTER TABLE JobTime
ADD XMLEquipment xml NULL
GO

ALTER TABLE JobTime
ADD XMLConsumables xml NULL
GO

We use SCA with the following setting:

<SyncOptionIncludeExistenceChecks>True</SyncOptionIncludeExistenceChecks>

Yet when a migration script is created for a table with data tracking enabled, there is no existence check:

PRINT (N'Add 1 row to [dbo].[ReleaseNote]');

SET IDENTITY_INSERT [dbo].[ReleaseNote] ON;

INSERT INTO [dbo].[ReleaseNote] ([ReleaseNoteID], [AppVersionID], [ReleaseNoteText], [DisplaySequence], [DisplayCondition])
VALUES (14, 4, N'You can now save calculations.', 2, NULL);

SET IDENTITY_INSERT [dbo].[ReleaseNote] OFF;
GO

I just got an error for the statement above, since the record already existed. Can you please update SCA to apply existence checks to table inserts?

Provide AWS AMI for Redgate SQL Data compare

I should be able to import an SQL Compare project into an SQL Data Compare project to get db names and such, plus table and owner mappings.
It seems like it would be a frequent thing that a compare and build would be followed by a data migration too.

You should be able to hide schemas from the display of un-mapped items at the bottom of the table mappings project edit dialog.

On the table mapping project edit page, the Where clause functionality needs to be added to the unmapped items at the bottom.

There's already an "Export to Excel" option, can we extend this to have an option send the results to Libre Office Calc instead?

If you want a use case, I can give you a few. But my usual one is that my Excel is busy running macros and won't respond for five or ten minutes until it's finished. So sending it to Libre Office to filter would save me some time.

My suggestion is to have an option to drop a foreign key in data compare instead of doing a "NOCHECK" / "WITH CHECK CHECK CONSTRAINT" with an "ALTER TABLE". Yes the way its done covers most cases but sometime the foreign key name need to be renamed in the same time. A drop/create can solve the issue. It's just a way to provide more control.

When I am comparing a SQL Source Control Repository against a DB, we need find an option to only compare tables which are linked for static data in source control.
This seems like a glaring missing feature, since I now have to create a project that manually maps all the tables that have static data and ignore everything else, and manually update it when new static tables are included in the repository.

I keep getting the error "Error mapping index key - try using clustered index as comparison key". I can't tell what table it refers to as it's not shown in the error message or the More Popup. It would be very helpful to display the table name when showing error messages

Our company produces many products and our team develops product configurators for it. Each product has its own database schema and a project file for independent deployment in the test and production environment. When a new product is added, all project files have to be edited to unmapp the new schema, it takes a long time and is tedious.

Please do not include quotes in the field names of the header row when exporting results to CSV. If you double-click on the resulting CSV, Excel cannot parse the column names. Instead, what you get is a single cell for each row with all of the quotes and commas in it.

I would like to see all the differences from "Only in left" and "Only in right" and "In both but different" in one view/tab.

I know you can turn off "Show identical values in results" from the project options and then use "All Rows" but that requires a re-compare which can take a long time.

An HTML report similar to the one provided with the SQL Schema Compare utility would be an excellent tool for doing QA Testing and Regression Testing. The QA Analyst could send the HTML report link to programmers to fix erroneous data. (The databases being compared would be the Pre-Test versus the Post-Test data.)

It would be useful to sort a column so that differences appear first (or last). This could be done through a right click on the column headers and selecting the type of sort to perform.

When comparing dataset with a large number of different rows (in my case 150k) where one column may having only 1 row that's different its next to impossible to find that row. Using the mouse to drag the scroller skips too much to be useful and paging down takes FOREVER.

Compare does not read from SQL backups that have used the native compression, although they can read from Redgate Backup files that have been compressed. I think that it should also be able to read from SQL compressed backups, as not all users will have Redgate Backup software.
This would be beneficial to all, because it would create a way of restoring lost data without using a partial restore, to any user that has this Compare software.