Showing posts with label storecomments. Show all posts
Showing posts with label storecomments. Show all posts

Sunday, February 19, 2012

enterprise manager (or other software) to document tables and columns for Server2k?

Hi,

We have enterprise manager for sql server 2000. I would like to store
comments about my database schema somewhere in the database. I want to
store information about the intent of tables and columns.

We have EM but I am open to any suggestions regarding products.metaperl (metaperl@.gmail.com) writes:
> We have enterprise manager for sql server 2000. I would like to store
> comments about my database schema somewhere in the database. I want to
> store information about the intent of tables and columns.
> We have EM but I am open to any suggestions regarding products.

You can use extended properites to this end, and that will inded put
data about the database into the database itself.

For more heavy-duty tools for data modelling, the three biggest tools
on that market are, I believe, PowerDesigner (from Sybase), ERWin
(from Computer Associates) and Embrocadero. These tools comes with a
price tag, though.

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Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, esquel@.sommarskog.se

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