SDU Tools: Get SQL Server Table Schema Comparison
In a recent post, I mentioned that I often need to do a quick check to see if the schema of two SQL Server databases is the same, and how our GetDBSchemaCoreComparison procedure can make that easy. On a similar vein, I often need to get a detailed comparison of two tables.
In our free SDU Tools for developers and DBAs, there is another stored procedure called GetTableSchemaComparison to make that easy as well. It takes the following parameters and also returns a rowset that’s easy to consume programmatically (or by just looking at it):
@Table1DatabaseName sysname -> name of the database containing the first table @Table1SchemaName sysname -> schema name for the first table @Table1TableName sysname -> table name for the first table @Table2DatabaseName sysname -> name of the database containing the second table @Table2SchemaName sysname -> schema name for the second table @Table2TableName sysname -> table name for the second table @IgnoreColumnID bit -> set to 1 if tables with the same columns but in different order are considered equivalent, otherwise set to 0 @IgnoreFillFactor bit -> set to 1 if index fillfactors are to be ignored, otherwise set to 0
Note that it doesn’t care if the two tables have different names in the same or two different databases.
You can see the outcome in the main image above.
You can see it in action here:
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2018-09-12