Requirements
Published 21 August 2019
To use SQL Compare you need:
Windows Server 2008 R2 or later, or Windows 7 or later
- Microsoft .NET Framework 4.7.2 or later
Supported SQL Server versions
- SQL Server 2019
- SQL Server 2017
- SQL Server 2016
- SQL Server 2014
- SQL Server 2012
- SQL Server 2008 R2
- SQL Server 2008
- Microsoft Azure SQL Database
- SQL Server on Amazon RDS
Support for reading backups
The 'backup' data source type has further limitations:
- Natively compressed / encrypted backups are not supported
- Advanced table features, e.g. file tables, memory-optimized tables, temporal tables are not supported
- Some SQL Server 2012+ only object types, e.g. sequences are not supported