Finding difference between 2 databases

Hi Folks,
I have the following problem:
I have 2 databases, database old, database new. Database new has modified/removed/added/inserted rows. Also columns in the db can also be modified. So what I have to do is to find the set of SQL statements which if I execute on database old, will make database old same as database new. Modification is only in data, not triggers etc.,
I have explained my manager that this is not very easy to implement. Even finding difference between 2 DB is not trivial. Do you guys have any suggestion for me? whether in terms of implementing it or even convincing my boss is fine :)
Are there any open source tools to do this? I am in big trouble now :(
Thanks,

Unless there is some other goal that you have not mentioned this is fairly easy.
Just delete all the tables from the old database using SQL delete tables and then create new tables and populate them with data from the new database.
Your SQL is basically just a serialization of the data in your new database.
Anything else that you could do, such as calculating the differences from the one database to the other, and then creating a minimal edit list that will make the least possible number of changes must be weighed against the time it will take to write the code to compute the differences, the time it will take to debug the code and convince yourself that it is doing the right thing, and the time it will take to actually run.

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