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ComparisonOptions file management
Hi Guys, When SQL source control starts to compare the linked database to source control can you get it to look for an updated ComparisonOptions file in source control and check it out and use it? ...
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By 'manage across developers' I mean manage the deployment script creation / update process across several developers. ie: one developer creates the script, submits it - everyone sees it and knows to use it when needing a script to do a deployment. I'm sure the migration scripts when applied by SQL Compare or using Source Control's getLatest would be in a transaction my issue is that all of the production systems we deal with aren't able to be hooked up to our development machines and therefore we need to run the scripts manually on the production servers. We could use migration scripts through SQL compare / source control to perform upgrades internally between DEV and QA but I've found it's best to deploy out to QA with the same scripts / process you would use in production as that way any issues with scripts are also picked up in advance. As the migration scripts are a seperate item in source control it would be ideal if the scripts created were standalone production ready scripts which also included any data changes checked in to source control. Then I suppose any data migration bits could be added to the end of the script and you're good 2 go. This would be a lot cleaner and easier to manage as it's a tab in the source control tool where as currently I'd need to use the two compare tools to generate seperate scripts and then check them in to a random source control folder which people need to know to look in. What I meant about the comparison settings is the stuff like 'ignore collations' which you can now set in the comparison.xml file for SQL Source control and also set in the options when using SQL compare. I can see that the migration script functionality doesn't really fit in with what I'm trying ot do at the moment and we can certainly use the other tools to do this, I would have thought that most people would be in the same boat in regards to not being able to hook up production systems to source control, espeially if they are managing products with a large install base. Is there an easier way to manage this through your toolset that I'm missing? Cheers, / comments
By 'manage across developers' I mean manage the deployment script creation / update process across several developers. ie: one developer creates the script, submits it - everyone sees it and knows ...
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Migration scripts -Transaction support/Static Data changes?
I've been looking at using the migration script functionality instead of using the seperate structure / data comparison tools as this would help us manage the deployment scripts across developers q...
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Comparing two Source control versions
I've come across an issue where data compare isn't picking up data changes when comparing two source control revisions where there have been structural changes involved. Example: I have a table wit...
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