Blog: Comparing data in your databases using DB Best Database Compare Suite

Subject/Title: Data comparison — regular and detailed / Comparing data in your databases using DB Best Database Compare Suite

Type of Content: A blog post that starts a series of articles that cover the key features of the DB Best Database Compare Suite.

Target audience: Database Administrators, Database Developers, IT professionals (candidates to join DB Best).

Summary of Content: Highlight one of the Database Compare Suite features. I plan to publish these blog posts on a weekly basis.

We start a series of video blog posts that cover the key features of DB Best Database Compare Suite. This is an ultimate solution for database administrators and developers. Database Compare Suite automates schema and data manipulations in homogeneous or heterogeneous database environments. This tool allows for comparing and synchronizing of database objects.

Also, you can compare, synchronize and migrate data in databases with equal or close-to-equal database schemas. You can execute the data comparison operation against any pair of databases regardless of the database platform. You can compare data in tables or views. The video below shows how you can use Database Compare Suite to compare data and actually discover the differences.

Video reference:

Video script: TBD.

Key findings

  1. You can compare data in different databases, for example, between Oracle and SQL Server databases.
  2. In just a few clicks, you can verify whether the data in selected tables is equal or not. This option really helps in database migration and upgrade projects.
  3. Opt for detailed data comparison to clearly see the difference between source and target tables. This option may come in handy for restoring backups, capturing data changes in production, etc.
  4. Migrate or synchronize data (more on that in our next blog post).

Use Database Compare Suite for data comparison

Completing the blog post, we will add several use cases and a list of Database Compare Suite benefits related to the data comparison operation.