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  • My question is specific to sql. I do not think it is a duplicate of what you are referencing. Commented Sep 12, 2019 at 8:04
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    Pushing the code back to the author may feel like dodging your job as a reviewer, but it is actually the opposite. You are taking responsibility for keeping the software maintainable, so that there remains a fighting chance to make further changes within a reasonable timeframe. Commented Sep 12, 2019 at 10:49
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    @CERGD, calm down a little. The problem here (as shown by comments on answers) is that you are proceeding on the assumption that an answer (more precisely, an answer within the constraints of your existing organisational procedures, and which meets the criteria of being an "SQL tool") already exists. Contributors here broadly feel that no such answer does exist, and that various emollients (like testing, documentation, liaising with the writer, or other changes in the relation between writer and reviewer) are being sharply rejected when they are actually the most sensible starting point. Commented Sep 12, 2019 at 10:57
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    @CEGRD, it can be a valid (if not scientifically definitive) answer for an experienced person to say "there is no known answer within the strict terms you've set" (although nobody said it quite so baldly). Your own question has not been laid out scientifically with all underpinning assumptions stated - it is just a practical problem casually stated. If you understood the problem with any scientific rigour, you would probably either have an idea what a tool needs to do to solve it (and describe it to us), or you would (like us) think it unlikely that any tool can solve the problem. Commented Sep 12, 2019 at 12:47
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    please can we not close this question? Its got a bit heated but the question is far more focused than the supposed dupe and someone might come along with a "oh redgate make a SQL comparison tool, its great" any second. Commented Sep 12, 2019 at 13:46