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DTS Compare - new name?
bdill
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With Microsoft's neverending need to change the names of things (their marketing "gurus" should be shot), Yucon will bring about a name change of our beloved DTS. It will be called SSIS (SQL Server Integration Services).
While the improvements are dramatic, I fail to see the need for renaming it to such a SSIS-y name.
Question to red-gate: :?: Will you be renaming the products in the future? If so, how about the following naming scheme:
Current Name
> Suggested Name
SQL Compare
> SQL Schema Compare
SQL Data Compare
> SQL Data Compare (unchanged)
DTS Compare
> SQL Server Compare
Since I first saw the product DTS compare and what it does, I thought that it was misnamed. DTS is only one aspect of the comparison. "SQL Server Compare" is more descriptive of what it does.
While the improvements are dramatic, I fail to see the need for renaming it to such a SSIS-y name.
Question to red-gate: :?: Will you be renaming the products in the future? If so, how about the following naming scheme:
Current Name
> Suggested Name
SQL Compare
> SQL Schema Compare
SQL Data Compare
> SQL Data Compare (unchanged)
DTS Compare
> SQL Server Compare
Since I first saw the product DTS compare and what it does, I thought that it was misnamed. DTS is only one aspect of the comparison. "SQL Server Compare" is more descriptive of what it does.
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That's funny... the first two versions of DTS Compare were called 'SQL Server Compare' but we changed the name because people were getting it confused with SQL Compare!
SSIS sounds like a good companion for Microsoft's upcoming WUS server. They're probably trying to wrap an acronym around PANSI as we speak!
Based on the names I suggested, everything would be
SQL xxxxxxxx Compare
Where xxxxxxxx = Schema, Data, Server.
Now if someone confuses schema with server, then they just don't know what they are doing, and shouldn't be doing anything SQL related