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Startup error caused by SQL Prompt
I needed to log activity on Visual Studio 2010 so I started devenv.exe with the /log switch. This error gets thrown:
System.IO.FileNotFoundException was unhandled
Message=devenv.exe
Source=System
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Suggestion: generate managed code with fake/mock data
The Data Generator is great when you are populating a database but in the TDD world it would be good to have an output option that creates methods in managed code (C#, VB.NET) containing fake data....
Suggestion: list SQL errors before synchronisation
At the moment if there are any SQL errors found at synchronisation time only the first error is shown in a pop-up. This is a nuisance if there are actually multiple errors that need resolving. It...
Ignoring a column
I'm compaing a couple of database tables on production and development servers where one column is Arabic text, but the encoding in each database is different. I want to compare the tables except ...
Log-in issue
Hi
I can log into a remote SQL Server Express 2008 database (across a VPN) with SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) without problems, but SQL Compare 8 is complaining of a network error: Provider, ...
Suggestion: word wrap in Viewer
It would be useful to be able to wrap text in the data viewer - a simple tickbox like the Whitespace one.
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Crash as synchronisation wizard starts
I've managed to crash SQL Data Compare at the start of a Sync Wizard operation. It's a bit odd because I have two development servers with this database on which I'm comparing to a single producti...
Suggestion: word wrap in data viewer
It would be useful to have a 'wrap text' option in the data viewer. I frequently have to deal with long nvarchar or ntext columns that don't have any line feeds and so I have to spend a lot of tim...
Date format not following locale
I'm using SQL Data Compare 5.3.0.68 and I've noticed that in the Object Differences table the date format is not following the locale. Dates are coming up in US format.
My PC is definitely set for...
Case comparison in ntext columns
I'm using 5.3 comparing, amongst other things, ntext columns where case of the content (as opposed to the column name) is an important issue.
I had a go with ticking the 'Force binary collation' pr...