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feat(legacy-migration): add schema export and compare - #373
This is the first half of a stacked PR for legacy database analysis. This automates exporting schemas, including stored procedure, view, and function definitions. It allows comparison between production and test.
This commit can stand on its own as a useful tool separate from the analysis tool in the second half of the stacked PR, although the analysis relies on this output.
A few comments and functions refer to the analysis report, which is in the second PR - it did not make sense to defer those few lines to the other PR. This PR runs on its own without the second.
The tests cover the logic that runs without a database.
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Adds a .NET Legacy Migration Toolkit that exports SQL Server schema metadata and scripts, records dependency and person-ID analysis in summary.json, and compares saved environment exports. The change also adds launch scripts, project and lint integration, documentation, and tests.
sequenceDiagram
participant Program
participant SchemaExport
participant LegacyMigrationScriptHelper
participant SqlConnection
participant Catalog
participant ExportFiles
Program->>SchemaExport: Route schema-export command
SchemaExport->>LegacyMigrationScriptHelper: Validate arguments and load configuration
SchemaExport->>SqlConnection: Open database connection
SchemaExport->>Catalog: Load database metadata
Catalog->>SqlConnection: Query metadata and module references
Catalog-->>SchemaExport: Return catalog data
SchemaExport->>ExportFiles: Write SQL files and summary.json
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ucdavis/VIPER#374: Uses the schema exports and SchemaSummary added here, then adds analysis and suggestions commands to the toolkit.
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Review comments at @web/Scripts/LegacyMigration/LegacyMigrationScriptHelper.cs:
- Around line 256-257: Update the Systems Manager configuration loading around
AddSystemsManager and Build so the environment-specific path is loaded
independently from /Shared. If loading /Shared fails, retain the successfully
loaded environment configuration instead of rebuilding local-only configuration.
Review comments at @web/Scripts/LegacyMigration/SchemaExport.cs:
- Around line 215-228: Replace the foreignKeys and checks mapping loops in the
schema summary construction with Select projections added via AddRange to
summary.ForeignKeys and summary.CheckConstraints, preserving the existing
mappings and column handling.
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- Line 190: Update the hasUniqueKey calculation in the schema export flow to
exclude filtered indexes, matching the rule used when populating UniqueKeys.
Keep the existing unique and enabled checks so tables with only filtered unique
indexes are not reported as having a unique key.
- Line 270: Update the ordering of checks, foreign keys, and unique constraints
so system-named objects are scripted by their definition or structural content,
while explicitly named objects retain name-based ordering. Apply the
unique-constraint ordering in ColumnAndKeyLines, keeping primary keys ahead of
unique constraints so equivalent schemas produce stable table scripts.
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- Line 19: Update the prerequisites and Permissions section to state that the
export requires database-level VIEW DEFINITION and SELECT permission on
sys.sql_expression_dependencies, as queried by Catalog.Load. Remove the claim
that the export continues with a warning when VIEW DEFINITION is missing.
- Line 108: Update the offline comparison guidance in the comparison section of
the README to qualify that offline execution requires the launcher’s packages to
have been restored beforehand. Document the prior restore step and an offline
invocation that uses dotnet run with restore disabled, while preserving the
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test/LegacyMigration/LoadConfigurationTests.cs
test/LegacyMigration/SchemaExportTests.cs
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web/Scripts/LegacyMigration/SchemaExport.cs
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Unresolved export and comparison defects can hide meaningful schema differences, mismatch object identities, and produce incorrect or incomplete dependency metadata.
Adds a standalone toolkit for exporting legacy SQL Server schemas and comparing environments. It also produces metadata for the analysis tool planned in the next stacked PR.
Changes:
Exports object definitions and metadata, including keys, dependencies, and potential person-ID columns.
Compares saved exports and reports definition differences, environment-only objects, and possible permission gaps.
Adds launchers, documentation, database-independent tests, and build/lint integration.
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- Line 87: Update the `tables` row description in the README to say “enforced
unfiltered unique key,” clarifying that disabled unique indexes are excluded.
Keep the surrounding description unchanged.
- Line 17: Update the credential requirements in the LegacyMigration README to
make AWS access conditional: state that AWS credentials are required only when
Parameter Store is the selected configuration source, since LoadConfiguration
can obtain a connection string from appsettings or
ConnectionStrings__<name> without AWS access.
- Line 60: Update the README’s output-clearing statement to say the environment
directory is cleared only when SchemaExport completes a successful export after
Catalog.Load succeeds; do not imply failed connection or catalog-load attempts
clear previous exports.
- Line 95: Update the referencesError description to say it is present when
reading dependencies failed, not only when the login could not read them.
Preserve the explanation that empty externalReferences and unresolvedReferences
do not necessarily mean no dependencies exist.
Review comments at @web/Scripts/LegacyMigration/SchemaCompare.cs:
- Around line 253-258: In the view-column comparison, change the `rightViews`
lookup to use ordinal name matching and replace the result `ToDictionary` with
indexer-based insertion so case-distinct names cannot abort the comparison on
duplicate keys. Since `ViewFileKey` does not account for the `~2` suffix, leave
suffixed views out of this check or document that limitation.
- Around line 229-241: Update the token-normalization loop in GetTokenStream to
track whether the previous token was a SingleLineComment and preserve its
following WhiteSpace as a line break rather than a space; keep ordinary
whitespace normalization unchanged. Add a Report theory case comparing the two
SQL strings with and without the line break after the comment.
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test/LegacyMigration/SchemaCompareTests.cs
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web/Scripts/LegacyMigration/SchemaCompare.cs
web/Scripts/LegacyMigration/SchemaExport.cs
web/Scripts/LegacyMigration/SchemaSummary.cs
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@bniedzie I ran the branch through Codex, Claude, and Antigravity, and here are the combined findings. The first three are correctness issues; the rest are smaller.
Correctness
The export drops indexes on views. The index and index-column queries in Catalog.cs:154-170 filter on o.type IN ('U', 'TT'), and ExportModules writes only the view definition. If one environment has a unique clustered index on a view and the other doesn't, the compare calls them identical. Add 'V' to both filters and script the indexes after the view; ScriptIndex should work for them mostly as is.
An object whose definition is hidden in both environments counts as identical. Both files hold the same "Definition not available" line, so leftText == rightText at SchemaCompare.cs:131 matches before the missing-definition check runs. Two encrypted procedures, or two logins without VIEW DEFINITION, inflate the Identical total. Check for the marker first and report these on their own line.
The export rewrites line endings inside string literals. WriteCrlfFile (LegacyMigrationScriptHelper.cs:316-319) converts every line ending in the file, so an LF inside a literal becomes CRLF. That changes the literal's value, and it undoes the care SchemaCompare.Normalize takes to treat whitespace inside strings as significant. Keep normalizing line endings, since that stops modules saved with CRLF in one environment and LF in the other from showing up as differences, but skip string literals. The ScriptDom tokens Normalize already uses can find them. Lower priority than the first two, since a literal that differs only by line ending is rare.
Scope of this PR
Some code belongs to feat(legacy-migration): add data quality analysis and suggestions #374. ValidateProjectName and AnalysisPaths in the helper aren't called anywhere in this PR. The doc comment on the SchemaExport.Export(connectionString, ...) overload says the analysis calls it, and the .gitignore comment mentions analysis results and suggestions. PersonIdRules and its tests probably go too: the test summary describes masking report values, which is a feat(legacy-migration): add data quality analysis and suggestions #374 feature, and in this PR the rules only fill one list in summary.json.
The README should say what the compare can't see. Index and table storage options (FILLFACTOR, compression, partition schemes) aren't scripted. Sequences show up as unexported, but nothing compares their definitions, and temporal or memory-optimized tables come out as plain tables. Scripting all of that isn't needed for a migration tool, but a reader shouldn't take "identical" to mean more than it does.
Smaller items
hasPrimaryKey counts a disabled PK, while hasUniqueKey ignores disabled indexes (SchemaExport.cs:204-206). A table whose only key is a disabled PK reports a primary key and also lands in TablesWithoutUniqueKey. Pick one rule.
GetOptionalArg finds a missing flag by catching the ArgumentException from GetRequiredArg. A shared TryGetArg would read better.
sysname columns keep the type name sysname. The ColumnInfo comment (Catalog.cs:18-21) says they resolve to nvarchar, but the query at Catalog.cs:136 only resolves user-defined types, and the built-in sysname isn't one. Its text length comes back null, and PersonIdRules skips it.
The export drops indexes on table types unless they back a primary key or unique constraint. Catalog.Load reads them, but ExportTableTypesAndAliases scripts only what ColumnAndKeyLines returns, which is the key constraints.
Test gaps
None of the correctness items has a test. Each fix should come with one: an indexed view, a definition hidden on both sides, and a module with a line break inside a literal.
Column and index scripting is thin. Nothing checks nvarchar length halving or max, decimal and datetime2 precision, identity, computed or default columns, or collation output. ScriptIndex with INCLUDE, a filter, DESC, or a disabled nonclustered index is also untested. The NewCatalog helper makes these cheap to add.
The SQL in Catalog.Load has no tests and can't have them without a database, which is how the view-index filter and the sysname case slipped through. That's acceptable for an offline tool. Please note in the PR description that the export was checked by hand against a real database.
Nits
SchemaCompareTests writes a Procedures/ folder, but the export writes StoredProcedures/. Harmless, but the fixture should match the real layout.
GetRequiredArg, ParseEnvironment, and ValidateConnectionName have no tests. They're small, and a few cases would cover them.
Optional: remove the old migration scripts
The Effort, Career Selection, and PhoneLists migrations have run, so their scripts in web/Areas/Effort/Scripts, web/Areas/Students/Scripts, and web/Areas/Personnel/Scripts can be deleted, either in this PR or in a separate cleanup PR off main. Either way, also remove the EffortMigration.csproj block in scripts/lint-staged-dotnet.js, the three Areas/*/Scripts excludes in .jscpd.json, their Remove entries in web/Viper.csproj, and their AnalysisOutput/ lines in .gitignore, and update the links in web/Areas/Effort/docs/.
@rlorenzo Fixed 1-2 and 5-14. For 3, tightened the documentation instead to flag that this can happen, since this is a significant change (fallbacks would be needed for any scenario it couldn't parse) for an extremely rare edge case with very little impact. For 4, this is correct but intended. The PR stands on its own, and breaking it up this way resulted in cleaner file change histories. This was hinted at in the PR description but understated - I've made it clearer.
For the optional piece, this should be done in a later PR. That scripts are still needed for examining and verifying an upcoming data cleaning script, post-analysis. Only about half of what these scripts contain has been converted as a result.
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- Around line 358-361: Update the SqlException handler in ReadModuleReferences
to rethrow timeout (-2) and deadlock (1205) errors, while retaining the existing
ModuleReferences error result for other SQL exceptions. Let SchemaExport.Run
handle these transient failures through its existing database-error reporting
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- Around line 44-49: Update SchemaExport.JsonOptions to use a relaxed JSON
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Do not classify transient module-reference failures as binding failures.
ReadModuleReferences converts timeout -2 and deadlock 1205 into empty references with ModuleDependency.Error, then SchemaExport writes the incomplete export and continues with only an aggregate count. The outer SchemaExport.Run already reports uncaught SQL errors as DATABASE ERROR, so rethrow these transient failures and let the user rerun the export.
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--- "a/web/Scripts/LegacyMigration/Catalog.cs"+++ "b/web/Scripts/LegacyMigration/Catalog.cs"@@ -355,10 +355,10 @@
new SqlParameter("@name", name), new SqlParameter("@class", referencingClass));
return new ModuleReferences(references, null);
}
- catch (SqlException ex)+ catch (SqlException ex) when (ex.Number is not (-2 or 1205))
{
return new ModuleReferences([], $"{ex.Message} (error {ex.Number})");
}
}
/// <summary>
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Update the SqlException handler in ReadModuleReferences to rethrow timeout (-2)
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Minor · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick win
Supported by static analysis
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sed -n '1,55p' web/Scripts/LegacyMigration/SchemaSummary.cs
sed -n '36,52p' web/Scripts/LegacyMigration/SchemaExport.cs
sed -n '58,103p' web/Scripts/LegacyMigration/README.md
rg -n 'summary.json|JsonOptions|UnsafeRelaxed|readable|human' web/Scripts/LegacyMigration test/LegacyMigration
Repository: ucdavis/VIPER
Length of output: 13894
Relax the JSON encoder so summary.json stays readable.
JsonOptions uses the default encoder. It escapes <, >, ', &, +, and non-ASCII characters. A check constraint such as ([code]<>'') is written as ([code]\u003C\u003E\u0027\u0027). SchemaSummary states that people read every property, so the escaped text is harder to read and to review in diffs. SchemaCompare.LoadSummary uses the same options. Deserialization still reads the relaxed form, so only the written output changes.
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Review comment at @web/Scripts/LegacyMigration/SchemaExport.cs around lines 44 -
49:
Update SchemaExport.JsonOptions to use a relaxed JSON encoder so summary.json
writes constraint characters and non-ASCII text without unnecessary escaping.
Preserve the existing indentation, newline, and camel-case settings; ensure
SchemaCompare.LoadSummary continues using the shared options for
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🟡 Changes recommended
There are unresolved issues including a critical potential null/tuple pattern bug in ViewFileKey (and additional logic/UX concerns in missing-definition detection and CLI usage text) that need to be corrected before the change is safe to approve.
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This is the first half of a stacked PR for legacy database analysis. This automates exporting schemas, including stored procedure, view, and function definitions. It allows comparison between production and test.
This commit can stand on its own as a useful tool separate from the analysis tool in the second half of the stacked PR, although the analysis relies on this output.
A few comments and functions refer to the analysis report, which is in the second PR - it did not make sense to defer those few lines to the other PR. This PR runs on its own without the second.
The tests cover the logic that runs without a database.