This is where all information can be viewed to check if a target SQL database was successfully updated or if it failed and why: Once desired objects are selected to be updated in the target database, click the Update button and the process will start:Īfter the update process is finished, the execution messages are shown in the Messages panel.
This will provide results and for each selected object in the Results grid, the source, and target SQL object script can be seen in the Object Definitions panel below:
Once selected, the Compare button should be clicked, and the comparison process will be initiated. In the newly opened query window, the SqlSchemaCompare query window, source, and target SQL databases should be chosen from the drop-down list: This feature can be located under the Tools > SQL Server > New Schema Comparison: So, they need a tool that can handle comparison of SQL Server database schemas, push (synchronize) schema changes to the QA database without errors and enable developers to review actions and any potential issues before the synchronization process.įirst, let’s start with the built-in feature that Visual Studio has for comparing SQL Server database schemas – the Schema Comparison feature.
Once the development part is done, developers will need a tool to compare SQL Server database schemas and push schema changes to the QA database for further testing before reaching production. When working in a development environment, developers often use Visual Studio for coding, and it also has an option to connect to SQL Server and open a query window in which they can work on creating new objects or updating existing objects directly on their local Dev database, which further requires a way to compare SQL Server database schemas with the QA database.
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