Question : Compare 2 separate databases

A user did a replace on all contact country fields so now every signal contact has the same country. I have tried to restore the database from tape backup but the .ADF file didn’t backup to any of the tapes, but that’s a different story.

We had a remote database setup on another user’s laptop that sync’s with the main one that was changed. I managed to save a copy of this remote DB and restore  before any changes were made to it’s country field.

So I have renamed the original and replaced it was the remote copy and all is working fine.

The problem is that our original DB has 12427 contacts but the remote has 12050.

Is there a way to compare each database to find which are missing from the 12050 DB?

Answer : Compare 2 separate databases

The database should be backed up using the in built act function, a standard backup utility won't do it as the ADF is constantly locked by the Act7 SQL instance (Unless it's disabled).

You can't "Compare" them as such, you would need to import the original master database into the new master database, if the duplicate checking criteria is correctly matching the duplicates it should create the missing records. Please see the following Sage KB article on merging databases.

Note: Backup your database before proceeding with this (File -> Backup -> Database).

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