October 2006 Blog Posts

New Database Documentation Tool - Data Dictionary Creator by Jon Galloway

In the continuing battle over database documentation, Jon Galloway has released a new .NET 2.0 weapon (with source!): Data Dictionary Creator Data Dictionary Creator collects extended properties/descriptions for SQL Server tables and columns and outputs the resulting documentation to a variety of formats. It's also easy to use, and did I mention the source is downloadable too? A tool I've used in the past for retroactively adding extended properties to views, stored procedures, and stored procedure parameters is the no-longer available XpressProps. Nowadays, I add extended properties to both the procedure and all parameters while scripting the object creation - here's some script...

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