Comparing two SQL Server database schema in C#

Question

I am releasing a newer version of my Windows application. There are DB schema changes in the new version. Also I do not want to lose the data.

So the approach that I ha

Answer 1

We use SQL Compare from RedGate, but it's not particularly cheap.

SQL Compare

This lets us compare the structure of two databases, and creates a SQL script to update one of the databases to match the other.