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Many of AdeptSQL Diff users are DBAs or developers who need to
use the Diff on their customers' machines. For them, it is
important to have a "portable" Diff that can be run on any computer
without installing and activating it every time.
To do so, the Diff provides a way to bind the activation key to
a USB flash drive. To obtain such a key, plug in a USB drive, run
the Diff and press "Choose serial" on the registration dialog.
You'll see a list of all unique IDs ("serial numbers") the Diff
knows how to generate on your machine. Choose from that list the
serial corresponding to your flash drive and send us a key request
(obviously, prior to requesting any keys you have to buy a
license). The Diff is not guaranteed to see any existing model of
USB drive, but with most of them it will work fine.
In fact you can put the Diff itself on the same flash drive and
run it on any machine *without installation*. To do so, just
copy Diff's home directory to some directory on the removable drive
(and optionally make a shortcut). The Diff is designed to
recognize the situation when there is no Registry entries for it,
then it runs in the "portable mode", loading/saving any options
into ASQLDIFF.INI file instead. See also Running from command line for details of how you
can control saving and loading of the Diff configuration.
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