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silas2
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Posted - 2005-04-26 : 13:48:54
I’m a Jet/DAO developer who’s recently started to use MSDE/SQL Server – I wrote a quick utility using DAO to compare two mdbs, tables/fields/relations/indexes/etc. so that I could quickly ascertain in what way a client’s backend had become out of date - but its producing funny results against linked SQL Server tables. I’ve just switched to MSDE, is there a utility floating around that does the same thing Sqlserver-sqlserver schemas? SQLServer-mdb would be useful as well as I'm trying to maintain two different back-end db formats to the same front end.

AjarnMark
SQL Slashing Gunting Master

3246 Posts

Posted - 2005-04-26 : 16:04:58
As I'm reading your post, there is this ad at the top of the page that is flashing messages about a software product from red-gate software that allows you to "compare and synchronize SQL Server databases". You might check into it.

Another option would be to have a basic text-file comparison tool run a comparison of the SQL build scripts. If you have not been using scripts to build/maintain the SQL Server, first, I suggest you get into that habit and second, you can have Enterprise Manager generate a script reflecting the current schema for you.

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