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Looking forward for the HTML Report for the changes. Nice option. We use SQL Compare a lot. -
I think that will be a great change. My one concern is whether or not identical items can be filtered out - those are just clutter when you're searching for changes, especially on large databases.
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First of all, this looks awesome! So much more clean and modern than the "classic" version. (The old one always did remind me of HTML programming circa 2000...)
I would like to second Ed's comment though. In my previous position I worked on databases with over 10,000 tables, and that interactive HTML report would get quite large listing out all the identical items. Perhaps some sort of option to not include identical items (and then making note that identical items were not included in the report) would be possible?
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Another +1 on the filtering, and a very easy way to ignore (and not even report on at all perhaps) identical items).
I would also like to see some ability to order and search.
A future cool item would be something like GMail's hotkeys where you can move up and down with arrow keys, expand/collapse with a key stroke, etc. -
Thanks all for getting back to us, it's really encouraging to see the positive response which ensures us that we are on the right path here
We plan to have a way to exclude identical objects from the report just like you can do today.
@TheSQLGuru Thanks for the other suggestions, really useful to know. May I ask why order and search will be useful for you use case? Also, even if it's not entirely what you are asking, you could expand all and use the browser search capability to search with the new report format. -
Ordering is probably not as useful as search honestly. But if you have hundreds or thousands of objects search would be REALLY helpful. And if you are going to allow search it should be 2-phase: i.e. you can restrict the search to object names or drop it down into the code of the differences. This is quite different from a browser search and I think adds to the usefulness.
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TheSQLGuru wrote: ยปOrdering is probably not as useful as search honestly. But if you have hundreds or thousands of objects search would be REALLY helpful. And if you are going to allow search it should be 2-phase: i.e. you can restrict the search to object names or drop it down into the code of the differences. This is quite different from a browser search and I think adds to the usefulness.
Most of the times, ordering is used as part of a search procedure. If there's no search, people will order and scroll to find what they want.
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As SQL Compare team, we are planning on replacing our good-old interactive HTML report (which looks like this) with the one that DLM Automation and ReadyRoll have (and that looks like this). Apart from it's gorgeous look and richer information content, the new report is showing the differences in a unified format whereas the the current one does the same through the split view.
Reason for the change
The main drivers for this change is to be aligned with other products in terms of shareable reporting capabilities so that we would remove the mind shift between products when you are inspecting differences. The other reason is that we're at a point that we can't fix bugs on the current interactive HTML report since the code and the technology to generate this is more complicated than we would like to. Related to this reason, we are also unable to add new features on the report.
We are looking for your feedback!
Before putting this out, we would love to hear your thoughts on this, especially on how we're showing the differences here with the new format. We would also like to know how far we are moving your cheese by doing this
Thanks!