>Anything simple to compare tables and show the differences? Even it was SQL that created a cursor of the records that do not match would be fine.

if you wantto track different records between 2 table

SELECT table1.pk as pk1, table2.pk as pk2 FROM ;
                 table1;
FULL OUTER JOIN  table2 ON table1.pk=table2.pk;
WHERE ISNULL(table1.pk) OR ISNULL(table2.pk)