You can generate a report of differences
between the source and target databases.
To
generate a report of differences:
Procedure
Choose the Preferences icon to ensure
that you have specified a reports directory. For
more information about specifying CDT settings, see Setting CDT preference settings in GUI mode.
In the Comparison Results tree, select the
Results node.
From the Comparison Results action
bar, choose the Additional Attributes icon. The Status panel
displays trace messages that enable you to determine the success of
the report generation process. The location of the report displays
along with a message of the successful creation of reports.
From the Windows Explorer,
browse to your reports directory. Within the directory you specified,
the Configuration Deployment Tool creates a subdirectory named according
to the time it was created.
For example,
if you have specified D:/reports as the reports directory
and generate a report at 3:40 p.m. on May 23, 2008, the CDT creates
a subdirectory called 20080523154024 within the D:/reports directory.
This new subdirectory contains the following:
An index.xml file contains an
overall summary of changes as displayed on the UI
One XML file for each table that has changes with
the details of each change
Open the XML files to see the differences.
Results
If you generate another report, a new directory
is created and populated with another set of XML files.