Archive for the 'dbdesc' Category
Documenting SQL Server 2008 RC0 databases
July 15th, 2008One of my customers asked me yesterday if dbdesc 3.0 supports SQL Server 2008 databases.
The answer is yes, dbdesc works just fine with SQL Server 2008 RC0 and even documents the new data types.
There is however a small issue… it won’t script tables. The current version of SMO does not support SQL Server […]
dbdesc 3.0 is ready… to document more databases!
July 14th, 2008After some time without new features, just bug fixes and maintenance releases, I’m happy to announce that dbdesc 3.0 is ready.
This new version comes with two major new features and several improvements:
Support for MySQL 5.0 databases
A Table Dependency Matrix is automatically generated which makes very easy to “see” the relationships between tables
Additionally, your […]
dbdesc and dtsdoc review at ASP Alliance
December 6th, 2007Richard Dudley has published a full review of my database documentation tool, dbdesc, and the SQL Server DTS documenter, dtsdoc. Here is the article abstract:
“I am a fan of simple tools which work well and save me a lot of time. Two of my “new best friends” are Logica2’s sister programs dtsdoc, which documents SQL […]
dbdesc 2.2 ready
September 20th, 2007I’ve just uploaded a new version of dbdesc. This version adds some useful features that I’m sure many of you will love.
The first one addresses a common scenario: Your database has hundreds of tables, views and stored procedures. You need to provide the database documentation to someone (a developer team, a client, etc.) but she […]
dbdesc 2.1 available
January 30th, 2007A new version of dbdesc is now available. This version improves a lot the successful extended property editor that was introduced in version 2.0. A special ‘thank you’ to all of you who have sent me feedback and suggestions, and specially to Tom Pester who has dedicated a lot of effort in helping me polish […]
Firebird 2.0 is finally out
November 17th, 2006This week, the Firebird project has finally released version 2.0 final.
Although this version comes with lots of improvements and changes, I think that dbdesc should be able to document 2.0 databases without problems. I will try to find time this very weekend to test it.
Here are the release notes and download page.
UPDATE: Even though you […]
dbdesc 2.0 released!
October 6th, 2006This week I finally managed to release dbdesc 2.0. This version adds a couple of features that will make dbdesc much more useful.
The first one is that you can choose exactly which objects you want to document. Until now you had the option to not document tables, views, etc. but it was an all or […]
Database tag clouds
August 28th, 2006I’m always more than happy to see how dbdesc users customize dbdesc templates for their own needs. Last week, Jasper Verweij posted a comment sharing his idea of building tag clouds using database objects.
It’s indeed a very useful idea because it shows which objects are “more important” on your database. After a couple of email […]
dbdesc 1.6 & dtsdoc 1.2 available
July 5th, 2006A new version of both dbdesc (1.6) and dtsdoc (1.2) is now available. These upgrades are (as usual) free for registered customers.
These are the main features added to dbdesc 1.6:
Create statements for tables
List of “dependent tables” which have foreign keys referring to the table
View’s fields documented
Triggers on views documented
INSTEAD OF triggers
Stored procedure parameters documented
Index properties […]
dbdesc reviewed on Larkware News
May 9th, 2006Yesterday Mike Gunderloy posted a small review of dbdesc 1.5 on Larkware site. (dtsdoc was reviewed last month).
Mike highlights the ease of use of the tool and the power of the command-line interface. First version had, in fact, no GUI at all.
I’m very happy with the review and hopefully it will increase the […]
