Archive for the 'dbdesc' Category
PDF database documentation improved and Oracle support: dbdesc 4.0
January 17th, 2012After some time in maintenance mode, I’m happy to announce that dbdesc v. 4.0 is ready! You can download it from here: Download dbdesc 4.0 This new version comes with two major features and several bug fixes. The most obvious feature is that dbdesc supports Oracle databases now. However it is still in beta. I [...]
dbdesc 4.0 beta, Oracle support
March 15th, 2010I’m glad to announce that next version of dbdesc is almost ready and it includes support for Oracle databases. Although I still have to finish some areas, the core functionality is already there. So if you want to try it out, please download it and let me know what you think, does it work with [...]
Minor release available, dbdesc 3.1.2
November 9th, 2009I’ve just published a new version of dbdesc. This is a minor release that fixes several errors reported and it also improves some areas. For example now it’s possible to specify the port when connecting to a MySQL database. Access 2007 support has received some care too. Please go to the download page to get [...]
dbdesc 3.1.1 available
March 5th, 2009I’ve just uploaded a new minor release of dbdesc. This version adds a couple of command line switches to facilitate the integration of dbdesc in custom scripts. Now you can type: dbdesc SqlServer -Ls It will output all the SQL Server instances visible from your computer. Also you can use -Ld to list the databases [...]
Minor updates for dbdesc and dtsdoc
January 19th, 2009After some time with no visible new versions, today dbdesc and dtsdoc got both an upgrade. During this time I’ve been silently uploading new build versions to fix small bugs. Now it’s time to tag those fixes as new point releases and add a couple of features. dbdesc 3.1 Even though dbdesc supports SQL Server [...]
Microsoft Jet Engine 64-bit and dbdesc 3.0.2
September 25th, 2008First of all, there’s no 64-bit edition of the Microsoft Jet Engine and it seems never will be. So when I received this error from a user using Vista 64 I panicked… The ‘Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0′ provider is not registered on the local machine. Last month I released a dbdesc version for 64-bit OS. It had some [...]
dbdesc 3.0.1 (64-bit OS support)
August 13th, 2008I’ve just released a new version of dbdesc for Windows XP x64 and Windows Vista x64. Even though the core of dbdesc is not tied to a specific architecture, some of the libraries that dbdesc needs (Firebird and others) are processor-dependent. So if you are running a 64-bit OS, now there is a specific installer [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
