Today I’ve released version 1.3 of dbdesc. These are the main changes since version 1.2:
New features
- Discover SQL Server instances on your network
- New button to retrieve the database list from a SQL Server instance
- New option tab to choose which database objects must be documented
- Extended indexes info. Index name and sort direction.
- Table dependencies
- New XSL template called html_browse let’s you explore the database documentation using a menu
- Minor enhancements in the other XSL templates
- Detailed progress messages added
Bug fixes
- Max. character length now shows the correct amount of ‘chars’. The physical length is provided in a separate field.
- Only the first 4000 bytes of a stored procedure, view or user defined function were shown in Sql Server 2005
- Related objects were not shown in Access
I’ve updated the web site with more sample output using Northwind and AdventureWorks databases from Microsoft and I added a new mini-FAQ in the support section.