Comparing Two SQL Server Databases....
Oct 16, 2007
Hi All,
I wan't to compare two SQL Server databases. i.e., I wan't to check both databases structure and add if necessary.
In my project I am using SQL Express database and now we update some fields in the database. So, if we wan't to update the new versions for those customers who are using old database we need to update the database also. It is not recommanded that to manually add the fields in the database and is time taking too. So, I wan't to compare two databases(old and new) and update the fields in the old database.
Any confusion in my question plz let me know so that I can be more clear.
Thanks for any reply,
Narayana Ayyagari.
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Jan 2, 2007
Hi
can anybody tell how to compare two databases on sql server
thank u
vizai
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Mar 22, 1999
I have a Development and Production database and they are a little out of sink. Does any one know of a way to compare two databases (tables, fields, sp) and report the differences? Thanks in advance.
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Sep 28, 2005
Hey all,
Trying to compare unique fields from two databases.
Basically what i'm trying to do is get all of the id's out of one field that don't exsist in the 2nd database.
so I have this query
Code:
select Distinct Id
from table1
where ID!= (select Distinct ID from table2)
I'm getting this error
Server: Msg 512, Level 16, State 1, Line 1
Subquery returned more than 1 value. This is not permitted when the subquery follows =, !=, <, <= , >, >= or when the subquery is used as an expression.
Now I don't understand why because then I query
select id from tables 2
I only get 1 value for each row.
Now you should know, the two columns in either table are different, in one of them the first value is "1" in the other the first value is "00000001" although I don't think that should effect anything.
Any idea's?
Thanks
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Jan 14, 2004
Hi all,
Sql server 7
i have two databases best and books.Most of the tables present in best are in books except some.
i have been given a task to list out the tables and columns of which are present in best database and not in books database.
Pls suggest me the simplest and quickest way to do this.
this is very urgent.
waiting for reply.
TIA
Adil
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Mar 21, 2007
Hi,I would like to compare two sql server databases.I need to find the difference in the two database(i.e table, colums,data type)Is there any free utility available to compare sql server databaseI'm using sql server 2000.Help me out to compare databasesThanks & Regards,Mani
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Sep 18, 2007
Hello,I would like to make a comparison between two databases in SQL server,to find differences between tables, procedures and so on.I have searched the web and found several softwares able to perform thetask, but none able to compare a database with a backup otained from aSQL Server database, or between two backups.Is this possible ? Is there a software able to perform such comparison?Thank you for your help.--L'amour, c'est un sport. Surtout s'il y en a un des deux qui veut pas.[Jean Yanne]
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Feb 27, 2008
Hey guys,
Im busy working on converting one DB to look like another one and I am using a data comparison tool to generate a script that I can hopefully use to upgrade an existing DB.
The problem is occuring with only one table and as soon as the script is run I receive the following error msg in SQL server 2005;
______________________________________________________________________________________________________
'Patient' table
- Unable to modify table.
Cannot insert the value NULL into column 'ClinicCode', table 'DCS.dbo.Tmp_Patient'; column does not allow nulls. INSERT fails.
The statement has been terminated.
______________________________________________________________________________________________________
Now the problem I am facing and I am hoping you could help with is where I can find the .Tmp table. This is obviously a temporary table created, but I have no clue as to how to alter the values of that temporary table in order to facilitate the changing of the table to coincide with the updated table.
Some help would be appreciated in this regard.
p.s. Hopefully I explained the problem sufficiently for you guys to help out!
Thanks in advance
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Dec 20, 1999
Hi, I would like to know if it is possible to compare data in two different databases (both SQL7.0),
with same exact schema. If possible, how could we do it?
Thanks
- Sharma
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Apr 2, 2003
Hi
Is there a way of comparing the data contained in two separate databases (on the same server)?
I have two databases: DevDB and DB and all I want to verify is that the data in both are *exactly* the same.
Is there a nifty function to do this in SQL Server?
Thanks
Sara
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Jul 23, 2005
Hi, does anybody know a nice tool to automatically compare and showonly the structural differences between two databases, this is, thedifferences in the columns of a table, constrains, data type, etc.ThanksJ.A.
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Jul 19, 2007
I want to compare the records in a table on my live database server with the same table that is my test database server. How can I do this?
Note that both databases are mirrors of each other but contain slightly different data and are on different servers.
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I have two tables that share (supposedly) 2 fields (PartID and RaceID) and those two tables should be identical as far as those two fields are concerned. That is, there should be the same number of rows in both tables and if listed in the same sort order in reference to these two fields, they should be identical. The problem is, they are not. There are in excess of 3000 records in each field and I need to write a query that will allow me to compare them row-by-row.
I am using sql server 2000 and I am (kind of)familiar with the SQL Query Analyzer. What I really need to know is how to write the select statement that will allow me to compare the two tables line-by-line to find the discrepancies or, better yet, simply show the discrepancies so I can focus on them.
Thanks!
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Jan 28, 2014
I have to write a where condition where i need to compare string with date
I have 2 columns FROMDATE and TODATE with datatype varchar(9)
The strings in the columns looks like YYYYMMDD+'1' or YYYYMMDD+'2' here 1 is Am and 2 is PM
i.e., 201401011 or 201401012
So I need to chop off last character before using them in WHERE condition.
Now I need to write a where condition like [if todays date is in between fromdate and todate columns then return rows.
if FROMDATE column is null it should take minimum date 1900/01/01 if TODATE is null then date should be 9999/01/01
The query i wrote is
select * from Table where ISNULL(SUBSTRING(VALIDTO,1,8),'19000101') > = getdate()
AND ISNULL(SUBSTRING(VALIDTO,1,8),'99991231') < convert(varchar, getdate(), 112)
but it shows no data...
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I tried setting a variable to be equal to the raw data field, and then using a LIKE '%@Variable%' to try and return anything that would contain it, but it didnt return any rows.
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Oct 30, 2015
I need to compare two consecutive rows (if BEGDA of second row is 1 day greater than ENDDA of first row then I need to pick First row BEGDA and 2nd row ENDDA)
Input Table Data:
PERNRSUBTYBEGDAENDDA
1010429001/1/20081/15/2015
10104210001/1/200812/31/2008
10104210001/1/200912/31/2009
10104220001/1/20081/15/2008
10104220001/16/200812/31/2008
10104220001/1/200912/31/2009
10104230001/1/200812/31/2008
10104230001/1/200912/31/2009
10104230001/5/201012/31/9999
101042DDPP5/16/200712/31/2007
101042DDPP2/16/20075/15/2007
101042MAPP2/1/200712/31/2007
101042VISI3/1/200712/31/2007
Output should be like this:
PERNRSUBTYBEGDAENDDA
1010429001/1/20081/15/2015
10104210001/1/200812/31/2009
10104220001/1/200812/31/2009
10104230001/1/200812/31/2009
10104230001/5/201012/31/9999
101042DDPP2/16/200712/31/2007
101042MAPP2/1/200712/31/2007
101042VISI3/1/200712/31/2007
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I've attempted to look at the configuration of each using
select *
from master.sys.configurations
From this I found several differences
Successful Mulit instance
Optimize for Ad hoc Workloads – False
Max Degree of Parallelism - 0
UnSuccessful Multi instance
Optimize for Ad hoc Workloads – True
Max Degree of Parallelism - 4
I attempted to co-ordinate the differences running the wizard for each iteration but it always failed with the same error above. The error always seems to occur when a particular store procedure is run. There are quite a number of scripts run prior to this and are technically under the covers and only discovered via tracing, in this case using SQL Profiler. I don't have access to individual scripts that I can run incrementally to replicate the issue. I have to rely only on the Esri Wizard.
Reviewing the error against several forums suggests that this is an ODBC error but the trace I ran using SQL Profiler finds that the driver used is Native.
My question then is "What are the conditions that would cause this error above (Invalid Cursor)?" "Is there other configuration settings that are not captured via the SQL identified above?" "Could this be caused by mapped drives for data, Logs and Temp?"
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create table dbo.PatientStatus
as
(
patient_id varchar(10),
status_type varchar(10),
status_date datetime
[Code] ....
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I have a table containing records of criminal convictions. There are over 1M records and the only change is additions to the table on a monthly basis. The two columns I need to deal with are convicted.NAME and convicted.DOB
I have a second table that has 2 columns. One is the name of the defendant and the other is the birth date. This would be monitor.NAME and monitor.DOB
There are no primary keys or any other way to join the tables for this search I want to do.
I would like to be able to put a name in the "monitor" table and run a query to see if there is a match in the convicted table.
The problem I am having is middle initials or names. If I want to monitor.name = 'SMITH JOHN' it will return the results fine. The problem I am having is if the conviction is in the database as 'SMITH JOHN T', or 'SMITH JOHN THOMAS'.
How can I use the monitor table with a 'LASTNAME FIRSTNAME' and return results if the convicted table has a middle initial. I tried with a JOIN:
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from convicted
join monitor
on monitor.name like convicted.defendant
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In a stored procedure, the following code is causing a huge read and CPU load when it really shouldn't. The @IDParameter below is coming in as a parameter to the proc.
Here's the snippet of code where the problem is coming in:
DECLARE @ID INT;
SET @ID = (SELECT ID From OtherTable WHERE FKID = @IDParameter);
SELECT COUNT(*)
FROM LargeTable
WHERE MostlyZeroID = @ID AND MostlyZeroID > 0Most (90+%) of the MostlyZeroID rows are 0 (hence the name) but regardless of distribution this should evaluate with minimal work on SQL Server's part to 0. However, when this was run, it is using a ton of CPU and doing a ton of Reads as it seeks through the entire index. When I look at the execution plan, I see under the seek predicate a Scalar Operator(CONVERT_IMPLICIT(int,[@1],0)) which is what is destroying the performance.
I've confirmed that the MostlyZeroID column in the LargeTable is defined as an INT NOT NULL. I also tested the scenario outside the stored procedure without any variables as the following to make sure it wasn't some kind of strange parameter sniffing scenario:
SELECT COUNT(*)
FROM LargeTable
WHERE MostlyZeroID = 0 AND MostlyZeroID > 0
However, this query also did the implicit conversion. I then tried this out on a temp table populated with a similar number of records (100 million) with a similar distribution and I didn't get the implicit conversion (I got a constant scan as I would've expected) when I did this:
SELECT COUNT(*)
FROM #TestTable
WHERE MostlyZero = 0 AND MostlyZero > 0
I also tried the same on several other tables that are set up similarly (large amount of zeros in an INT column) and I always got a constant scan and didn't do an implicit conversion.
why the query engine is interpreting this 0 as something other than an INT and doing an implicit conversion when getting the count in the scenario above? What can be done to protect against it? In the above scenario, an IF @ID > 0 statement was placed before the code including the count since there was no reason to even run the code if the @ID was equal to zero.
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Jun 2, 2015
I'm trying to avoid a large amount of manual data manipulation.
Here's the background: Legacy system that has (well let's call apples apples) pretty much no method of enforcing data integrity, which has caused a fairly decent amount of garbage data to be inserted in some tables. Pulling one of the [Individuals] table from within this Legacy system and inserting it into a production system, into the Table schema currently in place to track [Individuals] in this Production system.
Problem: Inserting the information is easy, how to deduplicate the records that exist within the staging table that the legacy [Individuals] table has been dumped into in production, prior to insertion. (Wanting to do this programmatically with SQL or SSIS preferably, so that I can alter it later to allow for updating existing/inserting new)
Staging Table Schema:
;
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[stage_Individuals](
[SysID] [int] NULL, --Unique, though it's not an index intended to identify the [Individuals]
[JJISID] [nvarchar](10) NULL,
[NameLast] [nvarchar](30) NULL,
[NameFirst] [nvarchar](30) NULL,
[NameMiddle] [nvarchar](30) NULL,
[code]....
Scenario: There are records that duplicate the JJISID, though this value is supposed to be unique for every individual. The SYSID is just a Clustered Index (I'm assuming) within the Legacy system and will be most likely dropped when inserted into the Production [Inviduals] table. There are records that are missing their JJISID, though this isn't supposed to happen either, but have valid information within SSN/DOB/Name/etc that can be merged into the correct record that has a JJISID assigned. There is really no data conformity, some records have NULLS for everything except JJISID, or some records will have all the [Individuals] information excluding the JJISID.
Currently I am running the following SQL just to get a list of the records that have a duplicate JJISID (I have other's that partition by Name/DOB/etc and will adapt whatever I come up with to be used for those as well):
;
select j.*
from (select ROW_NUMBER() OVER (PARTITION BY JJISID ORDER BY JJISID) as RowNum, stage_Individuals.*, COUNT(*) OVER (partition by jjisid) as cnt from stage_Individuals) as j
where cnt > 1 and j.JJISID is not nullNow, with SQL Server 2012 or later I could use LAG and LEAD w/ the RowNum value to do my data manipulation...but that won't work because we are on SQL Server 2008 in this environment.
[URL]
With, the following as a potential solution:
GSquared (3/16/2010)Here's a query that seems to do what you need. Try it, let me know if it works.
Performance on it will be a problem, but I can't fine tune that. You'll need to look at various method for getting this kind of data from the table and work out which variation will be best for your data. Without access to the actual table, I can't do that.
;
WITH CTE
AS (SELECT master_id,
MIN(ID) AS first_id,
MAX(Account_Expiry) AS latest_expiry
FROM #People
GROUP BY master_id)
SELECT P1.master_id,
[code].....
Unfortunately, I don't think that will accomplish what I'm looking for - I have some records that are duplicated 6 times, and I'm wanting to keep the values within these that aren't NULL.
Basically what I'm looking for, is to update any column with a NULL value to the corresponding Duplicate [Individuals] record value for that column.
**EDIT - Example, Record 1 has a JJISID with NULL NameFirst & NameLast BUT Record 2 has the same JJISID and values for NameFirst & NameLast. I'm wanting to propogate the NameFirst & NameLast from Record2 into Record1
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Hi
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Regards
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