

For example, you could go to the upper half which is designated to delete the ArcaneCode table and view and uncheck them. The check boxes allow you to select or deselect individual changes. In this example you’ll see that our source system has the JobTitle column, whereas the project on the right has our change to JobName.
#Difference between visual studio and sql server code
If you click on a change, the Object Definition area in the lower half populates with the code that creates the objects, and highlights the differences. In the upper half you will see a list of all the changes found. SSDT will do the comparison and populate a dialog with the results. Now click the Compare button in the upper left.

On the right, hit the drop down and for the target pick your AdvWorks project. For this example, we’ll pick the database that we created from our AdvWorks project, one prior to the changes you just made. The final choice will allow you to pick a dacpac file. The second will let you pick an existing database as a source. The top is to pick a project as your source.

The dialog will be mostly empty, we’ll start with the upper portion.Īs you see, on the left we hit the drop down and will pick Select Source. To kick off the schema compare, go to the SQL menu, then pick Schema Compare, New Schema Comparison. After you make the changes, don’t publish them! We need something different for this example. For your example simply rename something in your project. I have also added a table and view to the dbo schema. For today’s example I’ve done a safe refactor on the JobTitle column in the HumanResources.Employee table, renaming it to JobName. We’ll keep using the project we’ve been using in previous lessons. It will also allow you to do comparisons between dacpacs and projects or databases (or them to dacpacs).ĭoing one is pretty simple. The tool allows you to compare one database to another, a database to your project (or vice versa). A feature carried over, but improved upon, from Visual Studio Database Projects is the Schema Comparison tool.
