Compare and synchronize database schemas
Last modified: July 22, 2025
This section describes how to compare and synchronize database schemas to ensure consistency across environments. It explains how to quickly detect differences, group and filter results, preview synchronization scripts, and generate detailed reports. Instructions are included for saving comparison settings, automating operations via the command line, and handling synchronization across different Microsoft SQL Server versions. Additional topics cover comparing schema snapshots, setting up email delivery of comparison reports, and configuring automatic retries in case of connection failures. This functionality supports version control, deployment accuracy, and reliable schema maintenance.
In this section
- Synchronize two schemas quickly
- Save and load schema comparison documents
- How to synchronize schemas
- Group and filter comparison results
- Compare object DDL
- Preview the schema synchronization script
- Generate a comparison report
- Compare and synchronize schemas from the command line
- Compare database snapshots from the command line
- Additional Schema Compare arguments
- Command line options for the /schemacompare operation
- Exit codes used in the command line for /schemacompare
- Schema comparison and synchronization overview
- Compare and synchronize schemas on different Microsoft SQL Server versions
- View schema sifferences
- Configure the automatic delivery of a schema comparison report via email
- Configure running the comparison and synchronize processes again in case the server connection fails
- Automate schema comparison between a scripts folder and a database
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