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Advanced Options

Additional filter options are available in the Advanced Options pane, for example to filter by table owner, or to apply a case‑sensitive compare:

The advanced options include:

Auto dispose Database/Script Models

Closes the model that is created from the database or script, automatically when you end the compare session. The option to save the model is not displayed.

Auto resolve missing UDPs

Copies the missing UDPs to the target model, when all the differences are due to missing UDPs. Complete Compare detects missing UDPs or property differences for common UDPs and displays the Type Resolution dialog before the Complete Compare session. Select this check box to skip the Type Resolution dialog when all the differences are due to missing UDPs.

Case Sensitive Compare

Performs a case-sensitive compare. This option affects both the alignment of objects in the object tree and the equality of property values in the property pane. When the option is cleared, case is ignored for the purposes of alignment and equality testing of text property values.

Display Unified Attributes

Select this check box to simplify the display of foreign-key attributes in the Resolve Differences dialog. When selected, a Unified Attributes group object is used to display all unified attributes (role-named or not) of the same unified set of attributes.

Any attributes that are aligned to the attributes under the Unified Group object appear as part of the Unified Group object, even if they are not unified attributes.

The Unified Attributes group object carries the unified name if all the attributes under it are part of the same unified set. If not, the name consists of a comma-delimited list of names of all the attributes under it.

Exclude Unaligned Objects in the Left Model

Excludes unaligned model-level objects from the left model in the Resolve Differences dialog. Use this option as a filter to distinguish between changes in a model subset and a larger model of which the subset is a part.

Exclude Unaligned Objects in the Right Model

Excludes unaligned model-level objects from the right model in the Resolve Differences dialog. Use this option as a filter to distinguish between changes in a model subset and a larger model of which the subset is a part.

Note: You can select both, Exclude Unaligned Objects in the Left Model and Exclude Unaligned Objects in the Right model to compare only the objects that are present in both the models.

Ignore Code Comments

Excludes blocks of comments from the body of a trigger, before including it in the compare process. If the only difference is in the comments, excluding comments enables Complete Compare to recognize that a trigger has not changed.

Include Only Generated Objects

Includes objects for which the Generate check box in the property editor is selected. The Generate check box specifies whether you want to generate SQL for the object during forward engineering.

Prefix Owner

Matches by prefix table owner. When you select this option, objects are aligned based on both the name and owner name property.

Select Active Subject Area

Specifies that you want to select the active subject area by default in the Object Selection pane. Selecting a subject area by default simplifies the selection, especially in models that contain many subject areas.

Using Database Id Matching

Matches by Database ID. This option is available for Informix, Sybase, and SQL Server database servers only. If the DB ID property is present, objects are aligned based on the property. Database IDs are present only in models that are reverse-engineered from a database. Select this property to compare a model with the same model that is reverse-engineered from a database.

Using Name Matching

Matches by object name. Relationship, index, and index members are aligned based on the name, in addition to the normal criteria used to align these objects. Use this property if the models that are being compared have the same named objects with different owners. In this case, you can compare to see if the two models are similar other than the owner or schema name.

Tablespace in Database

Aligns objects according to both, the IN_TABLESPACE and IN_DATABASE properties, where applicable. This option is available only for the DB2 z/OS database server.

Using Object Id Matching

Aligns objects that are based on the Object ID property, where applicable. This option is available for the DB2 z/OS database server only.