I love this tool for refactoring. With a result set of over 3,000 rows across 60 columns, eyeballing similar outputs in a spreadsheet just would not do.
To use this tool, I modified the original query to output INTO a new table “_output” in the current database. Near the start of the query I put an IF EXISTS/DROP statement (more commonly used with temp tables), and at the bottom of the query I selected star from _output.
After improving the original query code (and saving it with a new name), I modified it similarly to the above – outputting results INTO table “_output” but in a DIFFERENT database.
I configured “SQL Data Compare” to use every column of the first “_output” table as a “comparison key”. And can now confirm the two tables called “_output” in different databases are identical.
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