Tips & Troubleshooting — Compare

Current Limitations

  • Schema sync for tables / columns / indexes / FKs is comment-guided today — module objects get CREATE/ALTER T-SQL
  • Security principals, permissions, synonyms, sequences, CLR, partition schemes, and filegroups are not compared yet
  • Data compare does not remap differently named tables; pairs must share schema.table
  • Scripts are generated for review — Compare does not execute them against the target automatically

System Requirements

ComponentRequirement
OSWindows 10/11 or Windows Server 2016+
Runtime.NET 8.0 (or self-contained package)
SQL ServerSQL Server 2016+
AzureAzure SQL Database, Azure SQL Managed Instance
PermissionsRead access to sys catalogs / INFORMATION_SCHEMA / sys.sql_modules; data compare needs SELECT on compared tables
InstallationNone — single portable .exe