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Documenting a Database

  • August 26, 2008 at 10:49 am

    #123202

    i just started at a new company, and one of the first projects they assigned me the task of documenting structures and relationships as well as finding redundant fields in the existing structures, that sort of thing. Anybody have any ideas on how to go about doing this. They want me to use Visio or Word, to produce the document. Any ideas on how I shold approach this?

    Warm Regards,

    Arthur Lorenzini
    Sioux Falls, SD

  • August 26, 2008 at 12:42 pm

    #863325

    Start with using Visio to reverse engineer a diagram of the database... hopefully, they actually used Foreign Keys...

    --Jeff Moden

    RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
    First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
    ________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.
    "Change is inevitable... change for the better is not".
    Helpful Links:
    How to post code problems
    How to Post Performance Problems
    Create a Tally Function (fnTally)
    Intro to Tally Tables and Functions

  • August 26, 2008 at 12:46 pm

    #863329

    i actually just completed creating several diagrams. They have Foreign Keys and everything:). I need to find Visio then.

    Warm Regards,

    Arthur Lorenzini
    Sioux Falls, SD

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