Well, once again you seem to have irritated some monks, and the whole pony question has been raised, which will probably keep this thread alive for days. But I think it is worth offering you some help, even if you have sometimes been accused of not listening. Heck, SOPW is often more about drive-by learning than helping the OP. :)

I think marto raises an interesting question -- did none of the answers to your earlier question help you? If you want to get help from other monks, you'll need to demonstrate more effectively that you are listening carefully. Please forgive the mild lecture.

If I were trying to compare two MS SQL databases, I would go about it by breaking the problem up into tiny manageable pieces:

• Build a connection to each of the databases in question. I seem to recall that you are operating in a Windows environment, so you probably have no trouble with this step (unlike the challenges that someone in a Unix environment might face).
• Figure out how to list all the tables in a database. Something like this code probably would do:

my $table_statement = "SELECT table_name FROM ${database}.information_
+schema.tables";
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• Increment the table names from the first database into a hash. Assuming you have a statement handle open, do something like this:

my %tablenames = ();
while ((@row) = $sth->fetchrow_array) {
  $tablenames{$row[0]}++;
}
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• Do the same thing with the table names from the second database.

When the dust settles, you should have a hash with a bunch of table names, some of which have a value of 1, and others that have a value of 2. The tables with a 2 are the ones which appear in both databases.

This is a pretty simple problem, and you ought to be able to adapt this solution for your specific needs. Good luck! :)

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