SQL Server Compare for Windows

User Reviews

• Nasty Error Message

  Good-man12/28/2009

  Pros

  Small, lightweight

  Cons

  It ran, but when trying to compare it displayed an unmeaningful error message about a missing DLL Poor quality

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• Amazing, and it's free!

  wigit15/14/2009

  Pros

  Compares tables, sp's, indexes, triggers, views, users...

  Cons

  Doesn't do data comparison beyond record count; no facility to align; misses 2005/8 specific attributes in comparison and creation.

  Summary

  This utility does most of what you need, but it's free. Differences are highlighted in sql, missing objects are scripted. You have to do the hard work to align the schemas, but hey - it's free! Did I mention it's free?

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• Very impressive - significant timesaver for small dbs.

  rcj446/3/2006

  Pros

  Successfully compared Tables, indexes, triggers, record counts, SPs, Users and Views, and highlighted the exact differences between my local copy and a production db - very impressive for a freeware product.

  Cons

  None.

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• Nice app. for smaller DB's

  9/6/2002

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  Saves me the time of running the scripts to perform the check.

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• Wonderful!!!!

  8/22/2002

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  I even test this with a huge database, it works fine. But the time factor is the only concern. Other than that, it goes well....

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• Good little utility!

  7/1/2002

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  This is a very good freeware app. Of course I wish it had more features such as the ability to compare two objects in two different databases without having to search the whole database. I give a lot of credit to the author as he has done me a great favor and given this app a wonderful start! I look forward to version 2.0

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