Released: Mar 8, 2016

Updates in this release

Updates in 11.5

New Features

• SQL Data Compare now has a SHA-256 digital signature.
• SQL Compare now connects to SQL Server 2016 RC0.

Fixes

• SDC-1418: SQL Data Compare no longer fails to compare some 100 collations when on an ntext field.
• Trial licences will no longer expire instantly if upgrading from a previous version.
• SDC-1816: no longer crashes on startup if your MSI installed locations are corrupted or missing.
• SC-8313: SQL Compare no longer fails to register Azure v12 databases that have been upgraded around 25th February 2016.
• SDC-1744: Data Compare no longer introduces 0.0000001 second errors into DATETIME2 values.
• SDC-1837: Data Compare no longer introduces 0.0000001 second errors into DateTimeOffset values.
• SQL Data Compare can now register repositories from SQL Source Control when the SQL Source Control 5 Beta is installed.
• Fixed an error registering views on Azure SQL Database V11.
• Fixed an issue where in certain circumstances it wasn't possible to upgrade to the latest version of SQL Data Compare.
• SDC-2002: Fix an issue where `comctl32.dll` could potentially fail to load when SQL Data Compare is launched.
• SDC-2005: SQL Data Compare no longer fails when registering a SQL 2000 database due to querying permissions which do not exist on this version of SQL Server.
• SDC-2007: SQL Data Compare no longer fills its log file with warnings when trying to connect to some versions of SQL Source Control.
• SDC-2014: Data Compare no longer inserts NULLs when deploying a script folder where column names weren't specified.
• SDC-2037: Fixed a crash selecting rows in the Row Differences pane.