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Hi Christian,  Thanks for your response. Because of the danger of the behaviour i descibed, - I have to be vigilant when first loading a new compare and manually unselect everything from the top. Therefore my question was why can't I set it to default like this all the time. But I suppose it would be difficult for the software to properly distinguish between a new compare and a repeated compare against a different target? The dangerous behavour I am witnessing from time to time however, is that reloading the compare (either refresh or switching one of the source or target) is auto-selecting items. So lets say I am promoting a local change to my dev environment and immediately want to promote that to test and then UAT in quick succession. I might hope to select the 1 single item in my first compare local|dev and promote and then when I reload my compare to either local|test or dev|test it should either, in my view, reset to all unselected for safety or try and reload the equivalent last selection. What it should not do is reload the equivalent last selection and then decide to load some other items. Which if not noticing means that a press of deploy results in deploying more than 1 item (in the above example). Your reply suggests that the behaviour I encounter is not by design then? In your example you refreshed the same database - what happens if you create/amend objects between the refreshes - do new/amended objects get loaded auto-selected? Or when you switch your target to the same database but on a different server does it select only the same named objects as your original selection? As you can probably imagine if I encounter this again I will only be able to screenshot the second snapshot and you would have to take my word for it doing it automatically. Otherwise, i will try and find some free time out of working hours to see if i can engineer example steps to replicate the issue. regards, James   / comments
Hi Christian, Thanks for your response.Because of the danger of the behaviour i descibed, - I have to be vigilant when first loading a new compare and manually unselect everything from the top. The...
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What is the auto check logic and how do i turn it off?
Something for years which has annoyed me and i've just grinned and beared it thinking it must be some behaviour toggle i haven't found yet so today i finally ask the question.Why does SQL Compare d...
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Anyone advise on resolving "Failed to locate" object error
i can see the object in my SSMS object browser and in the working folder source control is pointing at so I am not expected this error. (if it cannot locate it should it not just be listed in the d...
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I should have mentioned i'd already tried that option but turning that option off means you get countless differences that i do want to ignore and renders that option pointless. regards, James / comments
I should have mentioned i'd already tried that option but turning that option off means you get countless differences that i do want to ignore and renders that option pointless.regards,James
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