[cfaussie] Re: Anyone using SQL Delta?

2007-10-21 Thread Charlie Arehart (lists account)
Hey Toby, last week you asked for a tool to compare schemas and generate DDL. Do you mean generic schemas (not yet defined as databases), or you do you mean that term to refer to the schema as defined in SQL Server? In addition to the tool Ryan mentioned, I'll point out a couple others. One is

[cfaussie] Re: Anyone using SQL Delta?

2007-10-21 Thread Toby Tremayne
I love powerdesigner :) at the moment I use dezign for databases - it's brilliant, quick and very easy to use. Good for reverse engineering existing dbs into diagrams as well, and can generate scripts for most dbs. Toby On 18/10/2007, at 13:48 , Scott Thornton wrote: Toby, Can you

[cfaussie] Re: Anyone using SQL Delta?

2007-10-18 Thread Mike Kear
I think its a pity that we have to spend several hundred dollars to buy a product that does what Microsoft's own product is alleged to do already, but which no one has succeeded in being able to do. As far as I know. I have doubts whether any one at Microsoft even realises there are probably

[cfaussie] Re: Anyone using SQL Delta?

2007-10-17 Thread Toby Tremayne
I've used it a couple of times - fantastic product for managing changes during dev cycles to a live database. Generally I like to base everything from a schema diagram in a db that can generate scripts - some of these products can handle making changes / additions directly in the db, but