What's new

• RAD Studio 10.4 Sydney support was introduced;
• IB Description - COMMENT ON FUNCTION was added;
• Compilation warnings when compiling in new versions of Delphi were fixed;
• Added support for DB2 version 9, 10, and 11;
• MSSQL - the compatibility level checking was implemented;
• TableDataComparer - the WideMemo blob data type was implemented;
• The Big-Endian Unicode encoding support was added.
• The TDBComparer.Database Type property was removed. The appropriate database type is determined automatically from both the master and the target database settings. Simple ignore this warning and allow IDE to remove it while opening your form in Delphi.
• The IBServerOptions (and also MSSQLServerOptions, etc.) were moved from the TDBComparer component to the TDBStructure component. You will need to make corresponding changes in your code.

Implemented features

• The TableDataComparer component for comparing and synchronizing table data;
• The following SQL servers support are supported: Firebird, Interbase, MSSQL, Oracle, MySQL, Sybase, Postgre SQL;
• The Database Comparer VCL can be independently compiled with any version of supported database engines;
• The following database engines are supported: ADO, BDE, DBX, IBX, FIB, IBO, ZEOS, MyDAC, ODAC and IBDAC.
• The SQLExec component can be used independently from the DBComparer component for executing any SQL scripts;
• Sybase: Extract and compare PUBLICATIONs;
• Sybase(ASA): Extract metadata from DB, compare DB-structures, update DB-structure, execute external script;
• IB/FB: Option "Ignore IBE$... objects" added (ignore objects created by IBExpert);
• Dependencies of grants with objects;
• MSSQL2000 keywords. Quoting of identifiers performed only if necessary;
• Support of CharSet-prefix for strings (e.g.: select _unicode_fss 'ABCD' from rdb$database);
• Support of Interbase v 4.0 (extract metadata);
• Domains CHECK altering via ALTER DOMAIN DROP CONSTRAINT / ADD CHECK (IB6.0 and up);
• TableDataComparer: the "Update Immediately" option;
• DBStructure: Extract metadata into a script;
• TableDataComparer: comparing of tables with different structures;

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TDBComparer is the key component which performs most of the work comparing Master and Target databases and produces final update SQL script. The final update SQL script will be applied to Target database and contains all necessary SQL operators and statements required to make Target database structure identical to Master database structure. You can execute final update SQL script using standard SQL console for your database or by using TxxxSQLExec component (where xxx will be different for different databases).

To extract database structure definitions (metadata) DBC VCL uses set of classes called metadata extractors. There are two different metadata extractors, one to extract metadata from SQL scripts (TxxxScriptExtract classes) and another to extract metadata using live database connection (TxxxDBExtract classes). Each database has own TxxxScriptExtract and TxxxDBExtract classes which knows how to work with this specific database. For example, for MS SQL there is a TMSSQLScriptExtract and TMSSQLDBExtract classes, TIBSctiptExtract and TIBDBExtract for Interbase and so on.

Metadata extractor saves all information about underlying database structure in to special storage class TDBStructure. This class is unified for all types of databases. Such approach makes possible to compare and synchronize databases structure of different types of databases. For example you can compare and synchronize Oracle and MS SQL databases, MS SQL and dBases databases and so on.

When comparing databases the TDBComparer component uses two TDBStructure storages to store Master and Targets database metadata. To customize process as much as possible component has set of properties and options to control various aspects of comparison process. In most cases you will call ExtractAndCompareDatabases method of TDBComparer component.

TDBCConnection class (with underlying TDBCConnectionXXX classes customized for different database engines) implements generic live database connection. Simply set ConnectionType property to desired database engine. Please use TDBCConnection if you want to work with different database types otherwise you can always use database specific connection class e.g. TDBCConnectionADO / TDBCConnectionIBX / TDBCConnectionBDE etc. TDBCConnectionXXX connection components are used by all DBC VCL which requires access to database. The TxxxSQLExec (executes script) and TxxxDBExtract (extracts metadata from database) components are probably most notable among them.

To compare and synchronize data between database tables we created TTableDataComparer component. It can synchronize records within the tables between two different databases. This component works with all databases supported by DBC VCL and capable of synchronizing of data between databases of different type (f.e. MS SQL and Oracle). TTableDataComparer uses TDBCConnectionXXX connection components to connect to databases.

TTableDataComparer creates resulting update script which contains INSERT, UPDATE and DELETE statements which will alter Target database table to make it identical to Master database tables. This resulting update script can be saved into the file and later executed against Target database using standard SQL console for given database or executed via TxxxSQLExec component (where xxx will be different for given databases).

TTableDataComparer has wide set of options, properties and events which make possible comparing of data between tables with different structures. E.g. if tables have different fields you can manually setup list fields used for comparison and fields mapping.

Any SQL-statement which returns set of records can be used for data comparison and synchronization. It can be complex SQL statement with multiple joins and sub-selects or view or just a recordset returned by stored procedure and so on. Use SelectSQL property or OnGetSelectSQL event to set desired SQL statements.

TTableDataComparer also gives you control over Insert/Update/Delete operations so e.g. you can create script which will add or update records without deleting old records.

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Demo version information

Free and restrict functional beta version of Database Comparer VCL is available for evaluation and testing purposes only. Beta version can operate inside Delphi or C++Buidler IDE only, all other features are completely available.

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