Nice introduction to DBPro. Well written.

But, I have to agree with Mr. Leach on the basic point that instead of comparing databases as a deployment methodology, we in the database development field need to approach our systems, as much as possible, in the same way that the application developers do. This means building out of source control. That's where tools like DBPro, and for that matter the new version of SQL Compare and Mr. Leach's DBGhost, shine. The largest strength in DBPro wasn't the compare utility (frankly, if you have access to SQL Compare, the one in DBPro stinks) but rather it's ability to build an entire database directly from a set of scripts. Further, that fact that you automate this using MSBuild or TeamBuild allows you to add very smooth database deployments for continuous integration and other types of automated deployments. \

I was hoping that you were going to cover how to do incremental builds from those same scripts because that's something I have yet to master using DBPro. If you, or anyone else, has that aspect of the tool thoroughly quantified, that'd make a very useful article.

Keep 'em coming.