New comment by dangardan in "Found a simple tool for database modeling: dbdiagram.io"

dangardan — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 20:55:40 +0000

That's a good point, but to extend my situation, it's a client database I've been asked to transform. The map is indeed difficult to grok all in one, but using different views that come out of the box in yEd, along with some basic rules such as "make all nodes with the word 'cust' yellow", it's been surprisingly effective at exploring the schema.

New comment by dangardan in "Found a simple tool for database modeling: dbdiagram.io"

dangardan — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 04:41:47 +0000

I had the opposite problem, was given SQL ddl with near 1000 tables and hundreds of constraints, and had to produce the schema map. Ran the ddl and connected it to yEd, and hey presto, schema map!

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New comment by dangardan in "Found a simple tool for database modeling: dbdiagram.io"

New comment by dangardan in "Found a simple tool for database modeling: dbdiagram.io"