SSDT Data comparison, login failed

Question

When ever I try to proceed to the second step in the comparison, it displays a message saying that it cannot connect with the login I provided (sqlAuth not win).

Note A : It will let me run queries and even do a schema comparison, but no luck with data comparison.

Note B : localhost works fine.

Versions:

Remote:

Microsoft SQL Server 2012 - 11.0.2100.60 (X64) Feb 10 2012 19:39:15 Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation Enterprise Edition (64-bit) on Windows NT 6.1 (Build 7601: Service Pack 1) (Hypervisor)

Local:

Microsoft SQL Server 2014 (RTM-CU14) (KB3158271) - 12.0.2569.0 (X64) May 27 2016 15:06:08 Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation Express Edition (64-bit) on Windows NT 6.3 (Build 10586: )

Answer 1

There have been a number of connection-related fixes in the latest SSDT 16.5 release . I just worked through a similar issue with a partner building SSDT demos, and updating to latest resolved issues in Data and Schema compare for SQL Authentication with them. Specifically, there were issues where the "Remember Password" checkbox wasn't preserved which was causing issues, so you may need a one-time action to enter the password so that it's re-saved correctly.

Disclosure: I work on the SQL Server tools team.

Answer 2

I'm having similar issues with SQL Server auth.

Possible answers are listed on this similar question: https://dba.stackexchange.com/questions/102605/azure-sql-database-login-failed-for-user-in-application-but-works-fine-in-ssm

Which links to https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/sqlserver/en-US/74d2b7f0-09f2-4ef3-935b-e0a1e0e8fb82/schema-compare-target-unavailable?forum=ssdt