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• Validate Production Deployment

• Validate Data Load

• Recover Objects From Backups

• Maintain Lookup Data

• Audit Database Structures

• Not just Production

• Deployments happen frequently

• Failed deployments are costly

• Recovery may be impossible

• Code creep occurs in databases too

• Provide a safety net for data movement

• Partial success is hard to identify

• More than just a row count

• Makes immediate recovery possible

• Oops

• Restore is first choice

• Restore may not be possible

• Not just objects, but data

• Common data

• Multiple locations

• Consistent behavior

• Accurate data retrieval

• Others with ‘sa’ priveleges

• Unknown state of server

• No deployment process

• No change log

• Legal compliance

• Compare works with

– Databases

– Backups

– Scripts

– Snapshots

• Use command line

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