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Couple of old requests...

Just hoping this might be chance to add.....
1) When i have click / selected something of interest in middle object section and then move the mous to lower section and the use my mouse wheel - it scrolls the middle section and not the lower - very frustrating....
2) I often need to do several database compare between 2 servers at the same time. It would save time and effort if one could select multiple databases.
3) I would like to have SQL Compare and SQL Data Compare intergated into the same UI. I find i often have both open and have to bounce between them.
vanram
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  • vanram
    The server list drop down should show previously chosen servers, as well as any discovered.... - as 'SQL Analyser'.
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  • Dominick Reed
    Hi Vanram,

    Thanks for the suggestions, I'll see what we can do, although these are unlikely to make it into the initial release.

    Your first point is something that we have put into other products that we are working on, but it didn't quite make it into version 5. It's something I really value, so I'll make sure it gets considered for later releases of the bundle tools.

    Comparing several databases is still possible if you run several copies of the application. We try not to encourage this because when working with very large databases you can find that a lot of system resources are used. With the new projects, we think that this goes a long way to addressing the needs of working with multiple databases without having to have them all "open" at once.

    With regards to integrating them into a single product, we've certainly had this suggested to us before, but we feel that combining the two would make for a much more complicated user interface. We spoke at length to many of our users and we found that a great many who use SQL Compare and Data Compare only use one of them frequently. If we combined them, then the simplicity of the tools could be compromised and they would be paying for functionality that they didn't need.

    Hope that helps !

    :-)

    Dom
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  • vanram
    These suggestions have indeed been made before, over the last few years, by me, as well as probably others....
    Maybe a multi-tab solution would work. But as for size/resources; these compare tools require some awareness of the effect of ones choices - by definition, so I think that this should not stop you putting more functions at users finger-tips...
    Your concerns about a single IDE for these products has been mentioned before, but surely the solution to that, for the good points you make, have examples out there in the market. You could have an "pluggable" ide into which the purchased components would be installed, and only loaded into memory when used! Therefore again maximising the productivity of your users.
    Thanks
    Marcus
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  • Dominick Reed
    :-)

    The resource issue doesn't always work like that... what tends to happen is that if you provide the functionality for someone to exhaust their resources, they'll blame the tool. We'd rather not have an application that performs badly when it's put under unreasonable load, as it'll be the only thing that gets reported.

    You can of course still do this (by opening multiple instances of the applications), it's just that we prefer not to encourage it by having the design of the UI imply it's good practice.

    :-)

    Dom
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