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| Below are answers to the most commonly asked questions about Altova DiffDog® 2009.
- What is DiffDog® 2009, and what does it do?
Altova DiffDog® 2009 is a differencing utility that allows you to compare files and directories side by side. DiffDog® 2009 indicates corresponding differences between your files or directories using colored highlighting and connecting lines, so that you can immediately visualize the changes between the compared versions. In addition, you can merge changes to or from either file or directory, and you can even edit compared files directly in the DiffDog® 2009 comparison window.
Back to Top - Who is DiffDog® 2009 used by?
Users of all types will find DiffDog® 2009 to be an indispensable tool. In the development world, it’s a daily requirement to compare and reconcile multiple file and directory versions. Because DiffDog® 2009 can compare any text-based files, teams of Web developers, software developers, engineers, and many others use DiffDog® 2009 to help manage multiple source code versions. In addition, power users of all kinds use the powerful directory comparison features of DiffDog® 2009 to sync up their laptop and desktop computers and even manage their collections of digital music, movies, and pictures. Regardless of your job description, comparing files and directories in the easy-to-use DiffDog® 2009 interface reduces the time and aggravation associated with differencing and versioning.
Back to Top - What types of files can I compare with DiffDog® 2009?
DiffDog® 2009 allows you to compare and merge any text-based file, with support for Unicode, ASCII, MBCS, etc. This includes programming source code files, HTML files, XML files, and more.
In addition, DiffDog® 2009 supports intelligent, XML-aware differencing, merging, and editing. These features include DTD/schema-based validation, well-formedness checking, intelligent entry helpers, and XML-specific differencing options that allow you to specify whether namespaces should be ignored, if entities should be resolved, etc. These capabilities are a must for today’s developers working with XML. Learn more on the XML differencing page.
Extending its XML-differencing functionality, DiffDog® 2009 lets you compare and merge Microsoft Office Open XML (OOXML) documents, a compressed archive file format that contains multiple XML files.
When comparing directories, you can compare based on a variety of criteria, such as file size and date, or actual file content. The DiffDog® 2009 quick compare option differences files based solely on their size and date modified, and this allows you compare and merge directories with any types of files, from source code and documentation files to digital pictures and music. This option is very handy for syncing up directories on multiple computers, for example.
The DiffDog® 2009 directory comparison feature also allows you to compare and merge files inside compressed ZIP archives.
Back to Top - How does DiffDog® 2009 compare database tables?
In addition to comparing files and directories, DiffDog® 2009 Enterprise Edition can compare and merge database tables.
DiffDog database differencing is based on the powerful database compare and merge functionality introduced in the award-winning Altova DatabaseSpy® 2009 multi-database query, design, and database comparison tool.
DiffDog® 2009 Enterprise Edition lets users compare different versions of a table in the same database type, or even compare and merge the content of equivalent tables and entire database schemas in different database types.
These features allow users to detect changes over time between the live version of a database and a backup copy, or to identify differences between databases built in different database types.
Users may connect to databases directly within DiffDog, using the same Database Connection Wizard implemented in other Altova products. Or, all the settings for commonly-repeated database comparisons can be saved in database comparison configuration files that can be quickly reloaded.
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