Just wondering if there are any tools available for SQL Server 2005 which allow the comparison and scripting of data and schema between two databases. This is so that I can migrate between Dev, QA, and Live easily.
A free tool would be best please..
Thanks in advance.
Gaj
Does anyone have an opinion on specific “data comparison tools�?
We are looking for something to use in our test or dev environments that will be able to compare snaps shots of the data in a database before verse after a test event.
We have been able to record and compare data in specific tables but are learning that other tables were also being changed that we didn’t track. We want to be able to see all changes to a database.
Michael
Hi all,
Does anyone know any open source tool out there for these purposes?
1. Compare data rowcounts from two databases of the same structure.(On different servers).
2. Compare the structures of two databases.(On different servers).
3. Tool a developer can run on his/her desktop to capture a log of the database that his application is hitting.
Again all, I am new to the database world. Thank you for all assistance.
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Is there any free tool or Microsoft built in tool that we can use to compare the result sets. Suppose if I change one thing in code and needs to test the am I getting the same result set or not? Instead of doing manually is there any way to compare both result set.
Hey all,I am currently researching ways to compare databases via an XSD schema.I wrote a small app that creates a dataset from a database and exportsthat dataset to XSD. This gives me an XSD file with tables andrelationships representing the entire database.At this point, I am trying to find ways to compare these schemas. Doesanybody know of a way to do this easily and to record differences ifthere are any?Also, any information on comparing databases using any method would begreatly appreciated.Thanks,--Shock
View 3 Replies View RelatedHello,I'm relatively new to the database world so please forgive me inadvance for my ignorance. I have recently been tasked at my job withfinding a tool that will perform the following tasks: 1) extractschemas from a db, 2) produce a difference report between schemas fromtwo databases, and 3) synchronize two schemas. The purpose is forproduct upgrades during which an existing database schema will need tobe synchronized with a baseline schema.The tool must support the following database vendors (versions givenin parenthesis): Oracle (8i/9i), Sybase (12.x), Informix (9.x), MSS2000, and IBM DB2 (7/8).I have spent the last several days downloading and researching avariety of tools such as Aqua Data Studio, DbVisualizer, DBExplorer,DBDiff, and AdeptSQL. I thought it would be a good idea to post amessage to a few database newsgroups and ask for any recommendationsdatabase developers may have.So if anyone has any recommendations on such a tool or softwarepackage, I would greatly appreciate any information.Thanks!Chad Smith
View 9 Replies View RelatedI've searched quite a bit, and have found several leads on schema, stored procedure, and database contents comparison scripts and tools.
I'm now looking for recommendations on which ones are best, easiest:
ObjCompare.exe
sb_ABCompareDb.sql
sp_db_comp.sql
There's a mythical script from Andrew Z <mumble> that Mike Hotek talks about...
There's a DBCompare on the Back Office Resource Kit 2 CD, which of course is not in the umpteen MSDN CDs :-(
There's some *other* command line dbcompare, or maybe db_compare.
There's a DBA Compare.
I need to be able to compare divergent schemas from two developers to integrate their changes, so need schema and stored procedures compared only, and would also like to have something to compare staging servers and production servers.
Leads on other choices also welcome. I'd be happy to summarize and post, if warranted.
In the process of purging data to history tables,
we wanted to make sure that no schema changes have been done
to the main or the history table.
So to ensure identical schemas, we use this function:
ALTER FUNCTION dbo.fnCompareTableSchema
(
@t1Name NVARCHAR(257)
,@t2Name NVARCHAR(257)
)
RETURNS BIT
AS
/*
Compares the schema of 2 tables
If the schema is different RETURNS 0
If the schema is identical between the two table, RETURNS 1
NOTE: system tables or non-existant tables that are NOT in INFORMATION_SCHEMA views will compare equal (RETURNS 1)
==================================================================================================================
SAMPLE USAGE:
DECLARE @schemaOK BIT
SELECT @schemaOK = dbo.fnCompareTableSchema('dbo.table1','dbo.table2')
IF @schemaOK = 1
PRINT 'TABLE SCHEMA IDENTICAL'
ELSE
PRINT 'TABLE SCHEMA DIFFERENT'
==================================================================================================================
*/
BEGIN
IF @t1Name = @t2Name
RETURN 1
-- check if schema is different
IF EXISTS
(
SELECT*
FROM
(
SELECTCOLUMN_NAME, ORDINAL_POSITION, DATA_TYPE
, COLUMN_DEFAULT, IS_NULLABLE
, CHARACTER_MAXIMUM_LENGTH, NUMERIC_PRECISION, NUMERIC_SCALE
, COLLATION_NAME
FROMINFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS
WHERETABLE_SCHEMA = COALESCE(PARSENAME(@t1Name,2),'dbo') AND TABLE_NAME = PARSENAME(@t1Name,1)
UNION ALL
SELECTCOLUMN_NAME, ORDINAL_POSITION, DATA_TYPE
, COLUMN_DEFAULT, IS_NULLABLE
, CHARACTER_MAXIMUM_LENGTH, NUMERIC_PRECISION, NUMERIC_SCALE
, COLLATION_NAME
FROMINFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS
WHERETABLE_SCHEMA = COALESCE(PARSENAME(@t2Name,2),'dbo') AND TABLE_NAME = PARSENAME(@t2Name,1)
) U
GROUP BY
COLUMN_NAME, ORDINAL_POSITION, DATA_TYPE
HAVING COUNT(*) <> 2
)
RETURN 0
-- schema identical
RETURN 1
END
I am looking for some SQL Scripts/tool to compare the two sql database and generate the difference results into Excel file. I am not looking for Sync/change scripts.
Example:
Result Type Desc
-----------------------
Col1 Column Added
Table1 Table Removed
Following an upgrade to SQL Server 2012, our shop's Schema Compare tool (Redgate SQL Compare) is no longer supporting our environment.We are starting to evaluate various 3rd party products to find a possible replacement, and would be interested in what products are favored by other IT shops who do a lot of database work.
Our shop is split about 75% SQL Server, 20% Oracle, and 5% I'll call other. Ideally a product would support SQL Server and Oracle, but our focus is on SQL server right now. On that platform we have ~50 servers spread across DevUATProd environments.In basic terms, we need a tool that can identify schema differences between DBs and generate synchronization scripts to support deploys between environments. Real-time synchronization is not a requirement (nor desirable), as deploys are a gated DBA function in our shop.
We are getting regular SSDT/VS crashes when doing schema compares (source: project, target: server). Sometimes the compare succeeds but around 80% of the time we get a crash.
We are using VS2013 Update 3 and the latest version of SSDT.
Application : devenv.exe
Version du Framework : v4.0.30319
Description : le processus a été arrêté en raison d'une exception non gérée.
Informations sur l'exception : System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException
Pile :
  à System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.ThrowExceptionForHRInternal(Int32, IntPtr)
[code]....
I've downloaded and installed the latest SQL Server Data Tools for VS 2012. Â Is there anyway to export the results of the schema comparison into a report in CSV/Html format? Â I understand that it can generate the sql diff script, but I want a readable report that I can use to show to people.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI just recently updated to SSDT 12.0.50512.0 using Visual Studio 2013 Ultimate. I typically use SSDT Schema Compare to synchronize my schema across multiple databases and different environments. After updating i encountered a major bug while updating our production schema.Typically during schema compare, the compare will prompt me to drop users and user roles from the database as they are not present in the project. I will exclude these so they database users and their roles aren't affected. After the update to SSDT I noticed that schema compare was only prompting me to drop the User, but didn't show anything about the user's roles. Not thinking much of it I went through my usual task of updating all the production databases. I soon found out that this did in fact remove the user roles even though it showed NOTHING in the schema compare UI indicating it would do so.
GO
PRINT N'Dropping <unnamed>...';
GO
EXECUTE sp_droprolemember @rolename = N'db_datareader', @membername = N'dbuser';
GO
PRINT N'Dropping <unnamed>...';
GO
EXECUTE sp_droprolemember @rolename = N'db_datawriter', @membername = N'dbuser';
You could say this is partially my fault for not checking the generated script before running it, but after months of this routine task I've never had an issue until this update.i'm not seeing the changes that will happen to my user roles in the schema compare UI?Â
I'm trying to automate comparing the dacpacs we're generating from out builds against our production server to monitor drift.However, we use scripting variables to define cross database references.  The schema compare is showing up all the objects which reference the other database via scripting variable as being different to what is on the server i.e. it reports a change between a table referenced as  [$(db)].dbo.Table in the dacpac  and db.dbo.Table in the target database.
When I do a comparison in Visual studio between the project and the target database the variables seem to be appropriately replaced and the differences don't show. Â Obviously this is using a project instead of a dacpac but I'm hoping I can get the dacpac/db compare to behave similarly to the project/db comparison.
Is there a way to define what the scripting variables should resolve to when I run the comparison via msbuild?
Edit: Â I would prefer not to deploy the dacpac and diff the deployed db against the target database but if that's the only way....
I've made a comparison between a database project (sqlproj) and a database.
I can't exclude some items because they are dependent items on them. So they are implicitly included in the update script.
Unfortunately when I have unchecked all the items, some of them are still implicitly included.
It seems that there are circular dependency or some thing like that.
I am importing an existing database into a Visual Studio SQL Server Database project using Schema Compare. Â The Schema Compare works fine and I updated my project successfully. Â However, the project won't build because of the existence of 3-part names in some objects:
E.g. I import the database MyDB into a new project MyDB using Schema Compare. Â The database contains views with queries like this:
SELECT col1, col2. col3
FROM MyDB.dbo.MyTable
When trying to build this project I get errors like:
Error 39
SQL71561: View: [dbo].[vw_MyView] has an unresolved reference to object [MyDB].[dbo].[MyTable].
C:UsersRedirectionrittg2DocumentsVisual Studio 2012ProjectsMySolutionMyDBdboViewsvw_MyView_1.sql
but of course this is a bogus message since the view can clearly read from an object in the same database whether using 2-, 3-part naming (or 4-part naming for that matter).
How can I resolve these errors without editing the objects before running Schema Compare? (there are hundreds of them).
I have created Database projects in VS 2013 using SSDT. I have been mostly successful in creating and building the projects without any errors/warnings.
However for one of the databases in the project, when i do schema compare to apply the changes from a SQL Server Database to a Database Project in VS, code changes are not applied to the database project.
After i select the Update option in Schema compare window, I'm getting the following message
"Target update complete. Press Compere to refresh the comparison."
Even tough the message implies that target database is updated successfully, I do not see the objects i selected in schema compare being added to the target database project.
I see the following warning
"Target update: Could not update script for element 'dbo'"
I have 9 Database projects in the Solution and I'm able to apply changes to 8 of the database projects through schema compare successfully. I get the same warning after schema compare for all database projects.
I have same project level setting for all database projects in the solution. I'm using Visual Studio 2013 Premium Update 5 SQL Server Data Tools 12.0.41012.0
I have a database project where objects have been pulled in from the database using schema compare.
Unfortunately CDC tables which are referenced in stored procedures on the database have not been pulled in by the schema compare & hence I cannot build the project and deploy changes back to the database.
How to get these tables included in the project .
We have a commercial VB.NET winforms client/server application that utilizes SQL Server 2005 express edition. The schema and data that the application utilizes is proprietary and could be very damaging if it got into a competitors hands.
Is there any way to protect the data and schema of a sql server 2005 express edition database?
Will this functionality ever be added?
Thanks
Hi, all experts here,
I would like to know if there is any way to migrate third-party data mining packages with SQL Server 2005 data mining algorithms together then we can have a comparison among all of them to get the best results for training models.
I am looking forward to hearing from you.
Thanks a lot.
With best regards,
Yours sincerely,
Does that make sense? I have 2 tables, one is an older version, one newer. The newer version has some additional fields, indexes, etc. I'd love to have a tool to run against them that would generate an ALTER TABLE script to modify the old table so that it matches the new table.
Is there anything like that out there?
Hello,
I would like to use SSIS tool to move the data from one database schema to another database schema.
For example:
Source table has
1. UserName (varchar 20) (no null)
2. Email (varchar 50) (can be null)
Destination table has
1. UserID (uniqueidentifier - GUID)
2. UserName (varchar 50) (no null)
3. EmailAddress (nvarchar 50) (can be null)
4. DateTime
Questions:
1. What controls do I use in my Data Flow to make data move between databases with different data types and include new value in UserID as a new GUID and DateTime as a date (GETDATE)?
OLE DB Source, OLE DB Destination, Data Converson and .....
How do I insert Guid and Date at the same time?
2. I have many tables to do data moving. Any sugestions? How do I architect my project? If I create many data flows for each table - it will look complicated.
Please give me some advices here.
Thanks.
I Have a problem when copying data from one server to another in Management studio, I need to create and exact copy of the original because of primary key relationships,
Currently when I export the data the data will run through an insert type statement, which means that all PKs are reissued, rather than being duplicated from the original, How can I be sure that the data will be copied exactly how it is on one server to the other.
I need a recommendation on a data modeling tool that can be used with a data warehouse. My warehouse is running SQL 2012.
Here is my challenge: Most of the tables in the warehouse do not have primary keys and none of the tables have foreign keys on them. However, there are indexes and unique keys/indexes on the tables. I am looking for a tool that I can create virtual relationships on how the data is related, so it is visually easier for the ETL developers to write the code.
I have looked at both ER/Studio 11 and ERwin 9.6. Neither of them do it exactly the way I want it too. However, ER/Studio is pretty close.
I currently install SQL server 2005 CTP and I couldn't find the diagramming tool which used to view the conceptual model of the database structure, relationships and entities visually. This diagramming tool feature is available in SQL server 2000, however I couldn't find in SQL server 2005. Anyone would like to give me some recommendations or show me where this feature is hidden?
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I have Cognos 8 as BI-tool installed on a Windows 2003 Server, both 32 bit. We are thinking of using a 64 bit SQL Server 2005 with 64 bit Windows 2003 Server as database server for a new data warehouse.
Can I use the 32 bit SQL Native Client on the Cognos server for connecting to the 64 bit database server? If not, how should I set this up?
Thanks in advance for your help.
Kind regards,
Albert de Ruiter.
any one got a freeware/shareware tool that can script a table's contents?
you know...that it will make a text file of sql insert statements of data for each row in an existing table?
danka!
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I downloaded the SQL SERVER 2005 Evaluation Edition.
Question:
For Data Mining which Product Edition of VISUAL STUDIO 2005 i have to download ? ,
Hello,I am trying to connect to a DB, which is hosted on an SQL Server 2005 by a provider, using ASP.NET Configuration Tool. The result is the following error when I click on the Security Tab:---There is a problem with your selected data store. This can be caused by an invalid server name or credentials, or by insufficient permission. It can also be caused by the role manager feature not being enabled. Click the button below to be redirected to a page where you can choose a new data store. The following message may help in diagnosing the problem: An error has occurred while establishing a connection to the server. When connecting to SQL Server 2005, this failure may be caused by the fact that under the default settings SQL Server does not allow remote connections. (provider: Named Pipes Provider, error: 40 - Could not open a connection to SQL Server) ---The hosting provider checked that my connection string is correct. They do not know why I get the error, though. Here is a relevant snippet from my web.config:<connectionStrings> <remove name="LocalSqlServer" /> <add name="LocalSqlServer"connectionString="Data Source=ABC;Integrated Security=false;Initial Catalog=ABC;User ID=ABC;Password=ABC"providerName="System.Data.SqlClient" /></connectionStrings>ABC is a mock :)Could anyone pls help? It is much appreciated.
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