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export to libre office calc
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.
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Add option to drop a constraint instead of a "nocheck"
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.
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SQL Data Compare - Automatically select linked static tables for comparison when using Source 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.1 vote -
Include table name when showing comparison errors
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
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Provide option to prevent the automatic owner mapping
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.
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1 vote
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Do not include quotes in header row when exporting
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.
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Add new tab to show "All Different" which would combine "Only in left", "In both but different" and "Only in right"
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.
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SQL Data Compare does not play well with source control repositories such as SVN because of strange sorting behavior
SQL Data Compare resorts the files during every check in preventing source control from correctly reporting changes.
1) It prevents us from performing code reviews on data checked in.
2) It prevents us from figuring out who made a change and when without huge efforts.We have tried to live with this behavior but are finding it extremely frustrating.
When users add a new record, SQL Data Compare first sorts the existing file and then adds the new record to the top of the file. This makes it look like the user is performing multiple actions in source control causing…
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Add support to export comparison results to MS Excel
Can we please get the ability to export the contents of the SQL Data Compare results window (containing the rows with differences) to Excel, complete with the cell formatting seen in the application? I.e. headers for fields with differences in bold, cells with differences highlighted a different colour, etc.
This functionality exists in SQL Prompt (exporting from SSMS, admittedly without the formatting) so surely should be possible from Data Compare also?
Even better would be to be able to do this for all tables/subsets selected in the list of tables above the results window (i.e. all the data included by…
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An HTML Report Would be GREAT for QA & Regression Testing
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.)
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Allow sorting column by differences first
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.
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Read from SQL Native Compressed Backups
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.32 votes -
Add the ability to ignore specific column types, specifically datetime types.
My primary usage as QA is to use some DB as a baseline, run old code against it, run new code against it, and compare the results. Most of the differences are the times that records were updated or other time related fields. I am only interested in the data differences. All of the datetime field differences clutter the comparison and increase my analysis time by about a factor of 20.
I know I could go in and manually find all of the datetime fields in each of the 300-600 tables (depending on the DB) and un-check all the datetime…14 votes -
Connection Coloring
Would like to be able to assign a color to server/database combinations so that I can easily see what database will be updated. For example, my PROD database would always be colored red and it would help from pushing changes to the wrong database.
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Allow ordering for Delete, Update, Insert statements to be in different order
Often times updating a column on a table is dependent on a new record being inserted. I would prefer to be able to define the order for these to run in.
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Ignore Calculated fields
When a database has calculated fields, SQL Data Compare seems to process them and it takes a long time. Since these fields are calculated, they will never be updated so these should be ignored. At this time, we have to un-select each calculated field to improve on performance.
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Setting Comparison Key and check box selection feature
using the SQL Data Compare version 10 and Version 14.1 ( by the way I saw the same issue in version 13.)
For tables where the user has to set the Comparison Keys
In version 10 when the Comparison Key is SET and it changes to Custom , the check both between the two databases been compared is selected automatically. This is not the case in version 14.11 vote -
Add possibility to add CHANGE_TRACKING_CONTEXT to deployment script
Provide an option (in gui and command line) to add a CHANGETRACKINGCONTEXT to the generated deployment script.
This is helpful when using sql change tracking for synchronization to manage whether the changed made under a provided CHANGETRACKINGCONTEXT need to be synchronized or not.
When enabling change tracking we have to make sure that the data in the tables are identical on both sides. Thats were we use SQL Data Compare, but the changes made for that "initial sync" shouldn't be recognized by change tracking for later synchronization.
This would be very easy if you could just…
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deployment script for single change
Provide an right -click option to generate the deployment change for a row (or possibly multiple rows) from the difference panel. Similar to the Show Object Deployment Script option in the summary panel.
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