Two interesting bugs - Web service changes, DB column position changes

Two interesting bugs and learning's from them

Bug#1 - Due to install / upgrade paths it resulted in different ordinal position of same tables. Due to usage of select * this resulted in wrong update on columns

Automation Solution - With SQL command (link) we can figure out ordinal position differences between two same tables. Querying two environments for each tables, dumping the results in a XML. XML comparison  between them would highlight tables with different cardinal positions for two same tables.

Bug #2 - When web services are changed, the optional parameters introduced, signatures changed often fails to support backward compatibility 

Automation Solution - SOA model is open source tool for wsdl comparison. This can be used to validate wsdl differences between versions. Example code from SO

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