Archive for the 'dbdesc' Category
dbdesc 1.3 released!
December 19th, 2005Today 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. [...]
Maintenance release uploaded
December 7th, 2005I’ve uploaded a maintenance release of dbdesc to fix a couple of bugs: – SQL Server: Columns of type sysname are not documented – SQL Server 2000: Triggers are not shown in XSL templates I’ve detected some minor bugs more since version 1.2, but they can wait until the next point release, which will be [...]
Future features and users’ feedback
December 5th, 2005I have a pretty big list of features planned for dbdesc. One way I use to look at them is grouped like this: – Features from users’ feedback. – Features to catch up with competitors products – Features ‘needed’ to implement future ones – Features which probably will produce a major version. – Features which [...]
dbdesc 1.2 released!
November 21st, 2005I’m pleased to announce the release of dbdesc version 1.2. This release adds a new GUI to run dbdesc (of course you can still launch dbdesc from the command line). This is a screenshot of dbdesc-gui running on Windows XP: This release also includes support for SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2005 Express databases [...]
Adding a WordML XSLT template to dbdesc (and V)
November 13th, 2005I’ve finished today the new Word 2003 template for dbdesc. This time I’m not going to post the code, instead you can download it from here. However I want to post a summary about the building process of this template. First of all I know that not many users will use this template because it [...]
A very productive weekend
October 31st, 2005What a good sensation when you get “in the zone” not just a few hours but a whole weekend. This sensation is especially good if you have been in low productivity mode for several days or even weeks. This time the trigger to enter in “flow mode” has been installing the final version of SQL [...]
Adding a WordML XSLT template to dbdesc (IV)
October 23rd, 2005Adding table details Table details section contains the list of fields in a database table. It also contains the properties of each field. The best way to represent all this info is using a table. As I mentioned in my last post, the best way to deal with tables is saving a Word document with [...]
Adding a WordML XSLT template to dbdesc (III)
October 17th, 2005Adding formatting styles You can add some formatting style to every run of text <w:r></w:r>. Indeed, if you want to apply different styles to different words, those words must be placed separately inside their own <w:r> tags. Take a look at this post by Brian Jones to learn about WordML formatting. In the following code, [...]
Adding a WordML XSLT template to dbdesc (II)
October 10th, 2005In my last post I decided to add a Word 2003 (WordML) template for dbdesc. The goal for this post is to get a first version of that template that builds a list of tables of a database. The best way to start building the template is to write the simplest working WordML document, so [...]
Adding a WordML XSLT template to dbdesc
October 6th, 2005Currently dbdesc allows you to view database documentation in Word by using the Rich Text Format (RTF) template. It works nice. However, if you want to customize this template you are going to face a tough task because of the way RTF handles blanks. I’ve done it and it’s hard. By the way, I think [...]
