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  1. It would be nice to have the ability to generate a data insert script from a database without having to use SQL Data Compare. Currently, the way I do this is to create a second, empty database with the same schema, perform a data compare operation between the current database and the newly created, empty database, and then generate a deployment script. I wrote an application to do this using the SQL Data Compare API, but it is still problematic because it requires that you build a second database first, which requires that you have the schema scripted. It is…

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  2. When you do a data compare it would be great if you could select to only diff the static data tables and their data so that data in other tables automatically are ignored.

    40 votes
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  3. It would be nice to have an option to have the results scripted for MERGE INTO instead of the insert, update, delete. This makes it more friendly to have successful "re-deploy" situations if someone has already deployed the data and the merge into script could handle it.

    35 votes
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  4. We would like the option to generate the comparison result sets from SQL Data Compare to an actual SQL table for further processing. Currently our only option is to export to a CSV file.

    54 votes
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  5. When some tables cannot be compared because they do not have the primary key, give us an option to "use the combination of all columns" for all those tables, with a single click.

    Even when there are duplicates, give us an option to "ignore duplicates if all others are identical".

    9 votes
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  6. We have a lot of data in character-based columns that is essentially the same, but because of inconsistent line endings (CR vs CR+LF) cannot be easily confirmed as "identical". For each cell we have to open the viewer and visually inspect whether we only have line ending differences or there are other (meaningful) differences.

    31 votes
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  7. Any way of adding If not exists to the data script output when comparing data.

    225 votes
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  8. I would like to have a global filter that lets you eliminate certain named columns across all tables. I have 5 columns that are in every single table - last update date, last update time, last update user, record status and record delete flag. I want to eliminate them from the comparisons in all tables without individually selecting each table in all the databases.

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