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Overview

The xSQL Bundle for SQL Server is a collection of products designed to simplify the task of comparing, scripting, merging and synchronizing SQL Server databases. Designed primarily to help DBAs, developers and release engineers quickly identify differences, generate safe change scripts and perform repeatable deployments to different environments, it provides not only a user interfaces but also command line options to run tasks automatically and via scripts.

About the tool

This bundle includes a schema comparison component and a data comparison component, both intended to compare source and target databases and produce an SQL script to synchronize them. It doesn’t just blindly compare some objects and options it also compare permissions and generates a script for you to examine and execute. It also enables saving ‘snapshots’ for later comparison and executing saved operations.

How it operates

The fundamental function of the tool is to compare two states of a database and report on discrepancies. It supports comparison of tables, views, procedures, triggers, indexes and innumerable other object types. Comparison process can be refined using a myriad of options so you only focus on metadata that matter to you. If you would rather automate the process, just use the wizard that guides you in creating command line jobs for scheduled job and continuous integration pipelines. It can generate DDL commands that script and even execute the changes or simply generate the script for inspection, if necessary.

Primary features

• Schema comparisons with object level detail and script generation for synch.
• Data comparison. Shows the differences between two rows and can generate DML scripts (Alter, Insert, Delete) that will synchronize the tables.
• CLI Wizard to create repeatable jobs for automation and CI workflows.
• SDK for. NET so that developers could weave compare and sync capabilities into their applications or custom solutions.
• Compatibility with many SQL Server features and Azure SQL constructs, such as new object types and encryptions.

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It is targeted and effective. You won’t receive a bloated suite with dozens of irrelevant utilities. Instead you receive compare and synchronise utilities that perform what they were designed to and give you command over the output. For teams used to deploying DDL changes regularly the capability to produce consistent scripts and perform comparisons with command-line access helps to make deployment preparation less hit and miss. Thanks to the SDK it is also possible to embed the features into internal tracking and deployment software to sidestep the repetitive manual processes.

And the UI is simple enough that, once you get the hang of it, you can drive a comparison in a matter of minutes. However, when you get to those edge cases there are plenty of selection choices to tweak the behavior so you don’t inadvertently alter something you intended to leave. That balance of ease of use in the daily flow and a set of powerful options is what makes it useful across roles.

Typical scenarios

• pre-deployment checks where the drift of schema has to be acknowledged and corrected before deployment.
• Synchronize test or staging database with production schema, or load selected data.
• Creating CI jobs to test database change on a pipeline using command line configs.
• Build compare and sync logic into custom tools or migration scripts within the SDK.
• Auditing differences after restoring or by applying vendor patches so you will be able to create corrective scripts.

Closing notes

If you need trustworthy, easy to check in and out scripts to manage database changes across various environments this bundle provides a very targeted set of utilities that can get that job done. It’s nothing glamorous but functional and it plays well in interactive or automated scripts. Do a few table comparisons, generate a script and watch the time and frustration melt away when you don’t have to manually search for delicate schema conflicts.