{"id":1473,"date":"2023-10-09T16:33:51","date_gmt":"2023-10-09T16:33:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.versionsql.com\/help\/documentation\/features\/internal-diff-viewer\/"},"modified":"2025-06-18T20:36:25","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T20:36:25","slug":"internal-diff-viewer","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/www.versionsql.com\/help\/documentation\/features\/internal-diff-viewer\/","title":{"rendered":"Internal Diff Viewer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>VersionSQL includes a built-in diff viewer. This makes it easy to see the changes you&#8217;ve made to your database, right from within SSMS.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"padding: 5px; margin-bottom: 0; padding-bottom: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.versionsql.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/versionsql20-diff-example.png\" alt=\"See what changed? Easy peasy.\" \/><\/p>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\">See what changed? Easy peasy.<\/h6>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Of course, you can still point VersionSQL at a third-party diff viewer if you prefer.\u00a0 Navigate to the VersionSQL-&gt;Settings menu to open the settings window, then switch to the Diff &amp; Merge tag, then uncheck &#8220;Use internal diff viewer&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"padding: 5px; margin-bottom: 0; padding-bottom: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.versionsql.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/versionsql20-diff-settings.png\" alt=\"The built-in diff viewer setting, enabled by default.\" \/><\/p>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\">The built-in diff viewer setting, enabled by default.<\/h6>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":98,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"doc_tag":[],"class_list":["post-1473","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry"],"comment_count":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.versionsql.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/1473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.versionsql.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.versionsql.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/docs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.versionsql.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.versionsql.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1473"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.versionsql.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/1473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1475,"href":"https:\/\/www.versionsql.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/1473\/revisions\/1475"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.versionsql.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/98"}],"next":[{"title":"Merge Latest from Repo","link":"https:\/\/www.versionsql.com\/help\/documentation\/features\/merge\/","href":"https:\/\/www.versionsql.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/109"}],"prev":[{"title":"History of Changes","link":"https:\/\/www.versionsql.com\/help\/documentation\/features\/history-of-changes\/","href":"https:\/\/www.versionsql.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/1284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.versionsql.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.versionsql.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_tag?post=1473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}