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dbdesc - document your database! » Archives » Database tag clouds — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 15:55:41 +0000

[...] I’m always more than happy to see how dbdesc users customize dbdesc templates for their own needs. Last week, Jasper Verweij posted a comment sharing his idea of building tag clouds using database objects. [...]

By: JAG

JAG — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 07:59:38 +0000

That’s a great idea!

I’ve been looking inside the TiddlyWiki source code to figure out how to extract the contents using a XSL transformation. However it seems that it needs to be cleaned up before it could be parsed.

Integrating dbdesc and TiddlyWiki sounds fantastic! Please contact me if you need some help developing your idea.

By: Jasper

Jasper — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 07:03:13 +0000

Hi José,

This is very nice! I had never seen this before.

Actually I have been walking around with an idea lately, and TiddlyWiki makes it easier to create this idea: DbWiki (combination of DbDesc and Wiki technology)

My idea is to create tagclouds based on information found in database. When a table, view or stored procedure is referenced a lot, this table should have a larger font in the tagcloud. With this idea it would be easy for a newbie in a database to recognize the most important database table!

With TiddlyWiki and the plugin available here: http://15black.bluedepot.com/twtests/tagcloud.htm one could create a single HTML file with complete database documentation.

I’ll try to create something this week based.

Jasper