Object list tab
- Opened from: Home tab
- Applicable tab-specific toolbar actions:
- Refresh information from database. Also updates information about the current object type on the Home tab.
- Export to Excel
- Show all, new and changed, new, changed objects
- Jump to the next, previous change
- Select all, none, invert selection on the left, all, none, invert selection on the right side
- Applicable object types: all
This tab lists all objects of some particular type - tables, views, etc. Allows to identify whether some object is new, changed or unchanged. Note that for tables and views it does not provide information about data/content changes, only about object definitions (like changed column data type for tables or changed select statement for views).
Name column has a hyperlink that opens table structure diff tab for tables in the Pro version and text diff tab with object definition script for all other cases. Object name cell can also contain some additional action buttons for tables and views:
- opens text diff with a table pseudo-SQL script
- opens query result diff with select top 1000 records statement for the given table/view
- opens data diff for the given table/view
- opens data diff for the given table/view filtered only to new and changed records
Vertical toolbar between two panels contains additional tab-specific actions:
- Compare two selected objects
- Show table DL (foreign key dependency level) toggle makes visible DL column for tables. This value may help to understand the order of tables in the table merge script generated by the application. See Table DL for more information.
- Show text preview in the bottom
When bottom text preview is active, it contains three more actions:
- Show tab and space characters (the state of this toggle is synchronized with the same toggle in the Text diff tab)
- Show text preview line totals
- Show text preview selected line
At the top of the object list it shows changes summary for each side: total count of objects, new, changed and new+changed count. It also shows the number of selected records.
Also the top panel has a small quick filter button that allows to filter object list by name. This can be very convenient for large object lists. This action is also available with Alt+F keyboard shortcut.
At the bottom panel it shows information about selected object - either object name with create/update date/time or text preview. Note that bottom text preview is currently available for all object types except indexes.
See also:
Free version limitations:
- Object name action buttons - available only for Table definitions, and only data diff actions
- No bottom panel with text preview or selected object details
- No Excel export
- No jump to the next/previous change
- No changes highlight in scrollbar
- Not available 'Show table DL' for table definitions
- No top panel quick filter
Last updated: 2024-04-23