There are two stored procedures which has same name and same logic. But in different databases. Only some of the content names are different (example - Synonym Name, Table Name, schema). Other code is the same.
Is there any way to compare code between above two stored procedures?
Personally i prefer to use a SSDT Project (SQL Server Data Tools)
It allows you to store the entire database schema in a Visual Studio project and in git/svn.
It is capable of comparing two databases (in full) or a database with the SSDT project schema. It will show you the differences and allow you to publish those differences.
Configurable and powerful.
I highly recommend it.
For many type of comparisons (folder, text, etc.) you can use Beyond Compare (they offers 30 days trial, but after it, you can simple reinstall it).
If you want something free, you can use a compare plugin for NotePad++ but is not so fancy as the first tool:
The Plugin Manager can be opened from Plugins -> Plugin Manager -> Show Plugin Manager.
I am using the file comparison tool 'Araxis Merge' to compare files in my project.
Please check the link to download the tool - http://www.araxis.com/merge/index.en
You can download the 30 days free trial version also.
Even though the source code for stored procedures can readily be retrieved from the database, they should really reside in a VCS for any database that is (or will be) productionised.
Historically, this has been something of a manual process but later versions of Visual Studio include the SQL Server Database Project type which makes development and deployment much easier.
The question then becomes the far easier one of how to compare files within the VCS which is typically trivial as this sort of thing is generally provided out of the box.
Aquastudio does it pretty well.
So i have a database in visual studio and now i am trying to get a relationship diagram between the tables.
However on searching the internet it says this feature is not avaiable in sql server 2012.
So is there any way i can extract relationship diagram automatically otherwise i will have to make the whole thing manually which is quite time consuming.
There are a number of software tools that can create a relationship diagram, such as Microsoft Visio Professional (but not Visio standard), or DBVisualizer. The latter is available as a free "crippleware" version that may still do what you need.
I am using SQL Server 2008, can you recommend me some tool that I will be able to compare two database instances?
Also I want to be able to choose what tables and columns should participate in the comparison.
I want to add it to our automation testing.
Thanks.
Red Gate's SQL Data Compare can do what you need. It is not particularly expensive, especially if you buy it as part of a bundle (check out some of their other products - they have a lot of useful tools) and you get a free trial so you can see if it works for your situation before you buy it.
I have used it and it works well. It allows both comparison and snychronization of data between two databases, even if the schemas are slightly different.
For the feature "Command line automation for continuous integration" you will need the Pro edition.
If you're using Visual Studio 2010 for coding along with SQL Server 2008, you can use the Schema Compare and Data Compare tools that comes along with Visual Studio 2010.
Here are some resources:
Schema Compare
Data Compare
I'm wanting to start source controlling our DBs. I've read a lot of questions here and have found that MS Team System 2008 with Database Edition is what I need. So we get it and we are kind of lost really.
We would like in first place, compare the different DBs we have (DEV, STA and PROD) because we had never done any source control on the DBs, they probably have some differences we would like to solve. I've read that MS Team System 2008 DB Edition could do it, but I think we are not finding how to.
Once we had every DB on the same "state", we would like to create some kind of plan to spread changes from local developers DB to some source control (I think putting the Database Project under SVN will do the job). And then have a way to generate the "change script" to propagate the changes to STA, and then to PROD of course. Any ideas of how to do this?
This probably has been already asked, but I guess I'm not finding anything because I'm not using the correct terms to search.
A link to another SO question or to some article describing how to work with MS Team System 2008 Database Edition and SQL Server 2005 projects will be very welcomed.
Thanks to all
Cheers
The answer to your first question is the schema and data comparison features of Visual Studio Team System - Database Developer. You should have a menu item between Build and Test called Data. Under that data menu are options like "Schema Compare" and "Data Compare" - they are fairly intuitive to use.
The next question is how to use the source control on the databases. Source control should be your one source of truth for schema. When you create your database projects and store them in source control, I would suggest having them mirror production initially. Then you can apply changes to the projects and compare the projects to target environments like dev/QA/prod to identify and script out differences that could be moved to those environments.
EDIT:
I would also highly recommend chapter 8 in the book "Professional Team Foundation Server". That chapter covers usage of Team Edition for Database Professionals for the purposes of managing schemas.
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I would like to compare two SQL Server databases including schema (table structure) and data in tables too. What is best tool to do this?
I use schema and data comparison functionality built into the latest version Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 Community Edition (Free) or Professional / Premium / Ultimate edition. Works like a charm!
http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Visual-Studio/Launch-2013/VS108
Red-Gate's SQL data comparison tool is my second alternative:
(source: spaanjaars.com)
http://www.red-gate.com/products/sql-development/sql-compare/
http://www.red-gate.com/products/sql-development/sql-data-compare/
I like Open DBDiff.
While not the most complete tool, it works great, it's free, and it's very easy to use.
I am using Red-Gate's software:
http://www.red-gate.com
SQL Admin Studio from http://www.simego.com/Products/SQL-Admin-Studio is now free, lets you manage your SQL Database, SQL Compare and Synchronise, Data Compare and Synchronise and much more. Also supports SQL Azure and some MySQL Support too.
[UPDATE: Yes I am the Author of the above program, as it's now Free I just wanted to Share it with the community]
I'm partial to AdeptSQL. It's clean and intuitive and it DOESN'T have the one feature that scares the hell out of me on a lot of similar programs. One giant button that it you push it will automatically synchronize EVERYTHING without so much as a by-your-leave. If you want to sync the changes you have to do it yourself and I like that.
There is one tool with source code available at
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/205011/SQL-Server-Database-Comparison-Tool
That should give flexibility as code is available.
dbghost is the best i have used to date. one of the best features i have seen is that it will generate SQL code to go between versions of a database based on the SQL you keep in source control, as well as a database. simple and easy to use.
I've used SQL Delta before (http://www.sqldelta.com/), it's really good. Not free however, not sure how prices compare to Red-Gates
Try DBComparer, it's free and fast:
http://dbcomparer.com/
Database Workbench can made it too
http://www.upscene.com/products.dbw.index.php
Cross database development
Use the Schema Compare and Migration
Tools to compare testing and deployed
databases, migrate existing databases
to different database systems.
you can also made it with database Comparer
http://www.clevercomponents.com/products/dbcomparer/dbcomparer.asp
I use it for Firebird and it works well.
Try dbForge Data Compare for SQL Server. It can compare and sync any databases, even very large ones. Quick, easy, always delivers a correct result.
Try it on your database and comment upon the product.
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We are using an inhouse developed solution that is basicly a procedure with arguments of what you want included in the comparision (SP's, Full SP code, table structure, defaults, indices, triggers.. etc)
Depending on your needs and budget, it might be a good way to go for you as well.
It is quite easily developed as well, then we just redirect output of procedure to textfiles and do text comparisions between the files.
One good thing about it is that its possible to save the output in source control.
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I've used Red Gate's tools and they are superb.
However, if you can't spend any money you could try Open DBDiff to compare schemas.
I would definitely go with AdeptSQL if you're using MSSQL. It's the least good looking but the most talented db compare tool amongst the ones I've tried. It can compare both the structure and the data. It tells you which tables exist on one db but does not exist on the other, compares the structure and data of the common ones and it can produce the script to synchronize the two. It's not free but has a 30 day trial (as far as I can remember)
I tried OpenDiff Tool . Great tool that is free and easy to use .