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Suggestion: show number of lines different
For procedures, views, functions etc. it may be useful to show in the comparison list the number of lines that are highlighted yellow. This could allow me to sort by the objects that are "most dif...
Suggestion: Allow right-click, refresh on single item
Sometimes when I've compared two databases with a large number of objects, then manually changed one object in the list, I want to refresh to be sure I know exactly what the remaining deltas are. ...
Comparison gaffe with data compression
I am comparing two 2008 databases with a page compressed index. If there are any major differences between the two tables (e.g. a foreign key is missing from one side), the comparison shows that I...
Is there a way to make SQL Backup 6 cluster-aware?
Well, in terms of activation, at least? I have had the product running on a single-instance, active-passive cluster since it was released (in fact, it was upgraded from 5, which was upgraded from ...
Suggestion : pull linked server queries out of transaction
I use linked server queries quite a bit, but in my dev environment, I often trip on the failure where I can't start a distributed transaction in order to save changes to the procedure (or to create...
Suggestion : show modified date of objects
It would be useful on the compare screen to show the modified date (and maybe the created date also) of two objects. Sometimes when trying to consolidate two branched dev databases it can be usefu...
In progress... for how long?
The UIs that show a progress bar and list steps (such as the log shipping wizard) do not indicate how long they've been running. When I am setting up log shipping for a 500 GB database, it would b...
I am using the most recent version (can't check now but I just did the web update a few days ago). Is it possible that I focused a different database in the main UI *before* clicking Retry? / comments
I am using the most recent version (can't check now but I just did the web update a few days ago). Is it possible that I focused a different database in the main UI *before* clicking Retry?
Minor upgrades
This is not really a Backup issue per se, but affects all of the elements in the suite.
If I go to Help | Check for Updates, and there is an update to install, a dialog appears, downloads the updat...
Log shipping : Another retry issue
I was only able to reproduce this once.
I started the log shipping wizard, Server_A/DB_X -> Server_B/DB_X.
This failed on the restore because the destination drive was too small.
I freed up space o...