Why does Schema Compare in Visual Studio 2010 show differences when there are none?

Question

I had hoped that Visual Studio 2010 would have brought some improvements to the Schema Comparison function. I suspect there are some, but I can\'t get something basic worki

Answer 1

It does comapre some VERY obscure settings - I found the Lock escalation setting was different for 2 tables. Which I only managed to find in the properties of the table though the SSMS GUI.

I would imagine there are other uqually obscure settings it looks for as well.....

Answer 2

I had a similar issue in VS 2008. The route of the problem was that the project was set as a SQL Server 2005 project but the target server was actually SQL Server 2008.

Answer 3

I'm doing this today, and it's not ignoring things like tabs or returns, even though ignore whitespace is on. I copied/pasted the text to winmerge, and turned on view whitespaces and I can see the (non-whitespace supposedly) differences.

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