In order to make this process less cumbersome and complicated, we’ve developed the Database tool found within the Performance Profiler in Visual Studio to help you gain deep insight into the database tier of your application. However, a quick internet search reveals just how challenging it can be to investigate those issues, most solutions require installing a separate tool, gathering huge SQL traces, or changing your application’s code to get the information you need. When it comes to diagnosing the performance of web application, one thing we’ve heard in dozens of conversations with developers, is that the database tier of an application is usually a prime suspect for what is causing sluggishness within an application. You can create them with the commandline tool you ever been tasked with diagnosing a slow performing web application and suspected the database was to blame? Looking into your database tier requires specific tools, now you can quickly and easily investigate using the database profiling tool in Visual Studio’s Performance Explorer! You can create scripts for the changes and use that for your deployments.įor the initial setup with base data Microsoft has the bacpac files. The data tools are a good option when you can connect to both environments with Visual Studio. When there are differences: as with schema compare you can Update Target for immediate sync or use Generate Script to save the changes for deployment. There are none, because no changes were made after the Sql Server Export Data had run. To save the changes for deployment use Generate Script.ĭata compare will now show data differences for the tables.

After the compare, click Update Target to create the missing indexes and keys. To correct missing keys and indexes or other object differences, do a schema compare. Makes sense as it only copies the data (hence the name) Since my database was created using the Sql Server Export Data feature no indexes or keys were created. If no tables or views meet both criteria, the list will be empty. Second, only tables and views that have a primary key, a unique key, a unique index, or a unique constraint appear in the list. First, the schemas of the objects must match between the source and target databases.

Tables and views must meet two criteria to appear in the listing. The MSDN article about the SQL Server Data Compare explains why: When comparing the data between databases no tables could be selected. The first time I started the data compare it did not work. (Pro, Premium and Ultimate) We use it to compare and sync databases. Visual Studio 2013 has Sql Server Data Tools built in.

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