sql server 2008

Compare SQL Databases

Submitted by Nick Wood on Thu, 02/19/2009 - 17:03

From time to time, I’ll run into a situation where I need to compare database schemas or data from two different databases. This usually happens when a developer makes changes to a development database and neglects to keep track of those changes. When the time comes to push to production, it’s hard to remember all of the changes and if something ends up getting left out, you have to spend time tracking down what was missed.

This use to happen to us a lot until we started using scripts to create and update databases.