Redgare SQL Compare saves us time and money
SQL Compare is an integral part of our deployment process. All of our production database deployments go through SQL compare for database …
Redgate SQL Compare
Redgate SQL Compare
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Database Administration
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June 03, 2021
Redgare SQL Compare saves us time and money
SQL Compare is an integral part of our deployment process. All of our production database deployments go through SQL compare for database objects. We have also used it in one-off scenarios in test or dev servers to save time. We not only use the tool manually but we have also used the SDK for automation. It is very flexible and easy to use.
- UI is very intuitive.
- SDK is flexible.
- Lightweight and fast. Easily handles hundreds to thousands of objects in a single database.
- UI is a little outdated.
- It does automap columns but, when it comes to object renaming it would be nice to have more functionality. We tend to just do renames manually.
June 02, 2021
Redgate SQL Compare is great.
I'm a senior software engineer that works on a large web application. My primary use case for Redgate SQL Compare is for comparing schemas between, development, QA, and production databases and for that it works absolutely flawlessly. The ability to choose objects for deployment has also come in very handily in cases where I need to maintain some differences between my environments. I also use the greater suite of Redgate tools and believe the tool belt provides excellent value for myself and the other engineers in our department.
- Allows selecting objects for deployment.
- Table and owner mapping is also a nice touch.
- Great number of options for customizing the deployment script being generated.
- My tool belt sometimes loses it's license forcing me to fiddle with it to get it working again.
May 03, 2021
Fantastic time saving SQL tool
We use Redgate SQL compare to quickly and easily compare date between or development, test, staging and production environments. It allows us a very easy mechanism to assist in troubleshoot production or development issues. It provides a quick means of seeing differences between our different environments. Prior to using this it was very difficult to determine differences between environments.
- Comparison of data
- Deployment of schemas
- Massive time saver
- Honestly I would not change a thing about it
SQL compare is used in the department mainly during releases and the occasional issue finding (differences between live and dev environments).
Years before we did use a source control solution, but that caused more problems than it solved, so I use this software to deploy DB changes from our dev to live platforms. It's more manual, but it gives me the opportunity to review the differences, and from time to time question the choices of the changes!
Years before we did use a source control solution, but that caused more problems than it solved, so I use this software to deploy DB changes from our dev to live platforms. It's more manual, but it gives me the opportunity to review the differences, and from time to time question the choices of the changes!
- It allows you to set up projects for repetitive comparisions.
- It organises object differences very well, with filters and searches available on top.
- Redgate displays the differences between objects very clearly at script level.
- It's created deployment scripts that you can either run yourself, or complete using the application.
- So far so good. I have to be honest, it's not a complicated application, and so far hasn't caused me any issues or to question the choices of the developers!
September 11, 2020
Very handy tool to quickly see DDL differences between same objects on different databases.
Used for code and database object DDL comparison to identify changes.
- Compare DDL in multiple databases or with objects in source code repository
- SQL code comparison in stored procs, views, indexes, triggers or just sql files
- Pick objects to deploy changes from one server to another
- It would be good to have an option to ignore differences changes in comments or blank lines or tabs
August 27, 2020
Redgate SQL Compare from the DBA perspective
SQL Compare is being used by multiple departments across the organization. My area, Database Service, uses SQL Compare regularly when we're pulled in to look at performance issues. Since we have several thousand databases with many clients and a custom deployment process that doesn't necessarily deploy all objects exactly the same, we utilize SQL Compare as one of our main tools to look for differences between databases to gather an initial assessment of the database to determine if we may be missing an object, permission or any other database component.
On the application development side, they will use SQL Compare to assist with developing and generating SQL scripts for deployments.
- Ease of use, doesn't require a lot knowledge or experience to use the tool.
- UI is easy to navigate with several options filter content and results are grouped by content which makes comparing differences easy to find. Differences are also color coded and highlighted in code windows so you can pinpoint issues quickly.
- Ability to pick and choose which items you want to sync at a push of a button directly to the database or generate the necessary code snippet needed to deploy to multiple databases using a deployment process.
- Would like more filter options, like just looking for index differences between databases and tables and not seeing all the other differences that may exist in other components like triggers, extended properties, etc.
- A 'Golden Copy', I compare multiple databases that are similar but not exactly the same but you're only can compare 2 databases at a time. I'd like to have the ability to save components from multiple sources to make a golden copy but also have the option to compare the 3 the same time.
February 08, 2020
SQL Data Compare, not pretty, but it works
- Redgate SQL Compare is used in multiple departments within our organization. My company hadn't used Redgate products previously to my hiring, but it is spreading out through the company.
- One of the challenges working with data, especially in different environments, is finding differences/changes that have occurred in the data. Redgate SQL Compare makes this very easy to accomplish, highlighting the differences and even giving you the option to update the data on one of the systems.
- Data comparison
- Data update
- Speed of execution. It can be slow to run, especially on large datasets.
November 01, 2019
Redgate SQL Compare: the only SQL comparison tool you'll ever need!
My small web development team uses Redgate SQL Compare to help us manage our SQL databases across different environments (development, QA, and production, etc.). It eliminates the tedious and manual task of comparing database schemas and synchronizing them and their data across these different environments.
- Simple and easy comparison of database schemas and data. Differences can be copied or synced from one database to another with a click of a button.
- You can save "projects" so that you can easily rerun a previous comparison whenever you need to.
- It has a very simple, easy to learn interface. I've never needed to read any documentation or watch any tutorials in order to figure out how to do something.
- I honestly can't think of anything I don't like or anything I would change.
We use Redgate's SQL Compare to create our upgrade scripts for our application upgrades and deployments. We honestly couldn't do our upgrades without it! We make changes constantly to our database schema for our applications and managing those changes can be a hassle, let alone keeping track of what we need to put in the upgrade or new deployment scripts. Redgate's tools make this painless and worry free! Just check in your database changes into SQL and SQL Compare does the rest!
- Extremely fast!
- Compares from source control, not just physical databases. No need to keep copies of databases of varying versions laying around.
- Command line tools integrate easily into automated build processes.
- Even has plugins for products like Octopus Deploy!
- Not the best at initial setups. Sometimes there are error messages that have no bearing on what the problem really is.
- Documentation sometimes can be lacking, but their support team will make up for that.
February 02, 2018
A must have for DBAs
For my experience, SQL Compare is a DBA's "must have" software. Thanks to SQL Compare you can quickly and easily compare different databases in different environments. Personally, I use it above all to make comparisons between development or testing environments with for example production environments.
- Comparison speed
- Immediacy in the highlighting of differences
- Easy to use
- Some features or default preferences are not activated and are a bit hidden between the Options flags
- License fee slightly high
- If you upgrade the SQL server, you need to upgrade the version of SQL
April 04, 2017
RedGate makes awesome SQL Server dev tools!
I use RedGate SQL Compare within my department. In database development, it's an awesome tool to keep database structures and code in sync, especially with there are many hands working on a database. It helps in determining the REAL scope of structure and code migrations. I use it to both generate deployment scripts for later use and documentation and also to effect some migrations immediately. It depends on if I am trying to sync multiple dev dbs or a dev to qc db or from a dev/qc db to a prod db. It is very thorough in its comparisIt's. Its not unusual that I have a few of those "oh I forgot about that change" moments when running it. It saves me lots of time and frustration in performing db change migrations right the first time. I don't ever want to be without it!!
- Deep, thorough SQL Server db comparisons in places you might not think to look.
- Gives me flexibility on how I want to save or execute the SQL Compare results.
- Remembers settings between uses that speed me in using it.
- Has a clear and effective interface.
- Pricing.... I wish there was an inexpensive developer version I could buy for myself.
- Portability.... I would like to use it from a flash drive so I can use it where ever I am asked to work.
- Unbundled.... This may be available already but I dont' recall I can buy it cheaply as a stand-alone product. Its only part of the bundle - cost effectively.