Project Options Overview

This page describes project options at a high level. Most option behavior is shared across products even when the connection pages differ.

Common option groups

• Load options: affect how metadata is loaded, timeouts are handled, and whether additional server objects are included.
• Compare options: affect how SQL Delta evaluates differences, naming, formatting, permissions, and object properties.
• Script options: affect how deployment scripts are generated, wrapped in transactions, ordered, and commented.
• Data compare options: affect compare storage, matching rules, conversion behavior, and generated data scripts.

Where products differ

• SQL Server has the broadest server-specific option surface in the current help corpus.
• MySQL and Oracle generally follow the same option model, but their practical meaning can differ when a page refers to schema, owner, encryption, or server-specific objects.
• Only split into product-specific option pages where the difference changes user expectations or scripting behavior in a material way.

Use Project Options - SQL Server for the first detailed walkthrough, then refer back to the existing screen-level option pages such as Schema Compare Options and Data Compare Options.