SQL Multicast

Schema coverage scan: Running it

Finds what differs across the databases in the selected target group: objects missing from some,columns typed differently on some.

Last updated 2026-10-21

Finds what differs across the databases in the selected target group: objects missing from some, columns typed differently on some.

The confirmation shown before a schema drift scan: it names the 12 databases to be read, lists the production ones, and says only schemas are read and nothing is executed.
The confirmation shown before a schema drift scan: it names the 12 databases to be read, lists the production ones, and says only schemas are read and nothing is executed.

From the command palette or the menu — Scan coverage. It has no keyboard shortcut, on purpose: it opens a connection per target, so it should be invoked deliberately rather than by a key somebody hits while reaching for something else.

It asks first:

This opens a connection to each of the 12 databases in the selected distribution list and reads its schema. It can take several minutes, and you can stop it at any point — whatever it has read by then is kept.

Progress and a Stop button appear in the status bar. Stopping keeps what has been read.