January 3rd, 2013

New features

• This release of SQL Data Compare contains significant performance improvements - up to 50% faster on script folder registration, 60% faster on the registration and a 50% reduction on the memory usage for some LOBs.

Fixes

• Changed default script encoding to UTF-8 with preamble - SQLCMD didn't recognise some UTF-8 scripts otherwise
• Various small UI fixes (un-greying some text, fixing some cut-off / overprinted text, improved some option descriptions)
• Improved UI stability (fixed several race conditions that occasionally produced null reference exceptions or invalid operation exceptions in the UI)
• SQL Data Compare can now load projects with source-controlled databases saved by SQL Compare correctly
• Connection details now preserved when launching SQL Data Compare from SQL Compare
• Fixed some KeyNotFoundExceptions caused by UI state getting out of sync