Trial and licensing
How the 30-day trial works, what stays free afterwards and how to activate a license key for SQLTreeo Compare.
The trial
The first start on a computer creates a 30-day trial. During the trial every feature is available. The trial is available once per computer and cannot be extended or copied.
After the trial the desktop application stays usable without a license key, view only:
| Without a license key | With a license key | |
|---|---|---|
| Compare schemas, servers and data | Yes | Yes |
| Look at every difference and at the deployment or configuration script | Yes | Yes |
| Copy text out of the results and scripts | No | Yes |
| Save or run a script, deploy to the target | No | Yes |
| Export reports | No | Yes |
The sqlcompare command line |
No | Yes |
The app tells you where you stand: the start page and Settings show the days left and what changes afterwards, a banner appears in the last 7 days of the trial, and a paid action without a license explains itself and offers to buy a key or enter one.
Activate a license key
A purchased key is sent to the email address used at checkout.
- Desktop: Settings → License, paste the key and the name of the licensee, then verify.
- Command line:
sqlcompare license --key <key>. - Unattended machines: set the environment variable
SQLCOMPARE_LICENSE_KEY.
The key is verified online with the SQLTreeo license service. Verified keys keep working for 30 days without a connection. A freshly entered key that cannot be verified is accepted for 3 days.
Named users
Each license key is personal to one named user, who may install and activate SQLTreeo Compare on up to three computers that are mainly used by that person. Use of the command line on a build, automation or shared server requires a key for each such server. A key may be reassigned to another person once every 30 days.
Renewal
Before the term ends SQLTreeo Compare informs you and offers renewal. When a term ends and is not renewed, the paid features stop working and the software becomes view only, as after the trial. Projects, settings and reports are not affected.
The full terms are in the SQLTreeo Compare end-user license agreement.
To see what the license costs next to other SQL Server compare tools, see the comparison.