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Re: determining the relationships between schema objects

From: Frank van Bortel <frank.van.bortel_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2006 09:49:11 +0200
Message-ID: <edlu7v$4kl$1@news2.zwoll1.ov.home.nl>


Jeff Calico schreef:
> I have inherited a project which seems to have no documentation. There
> are some 50 - 60 tables as well as sequences, indexes, constraints...
> I can find no sql script to look at that creates all these objects.
>
> What is a good way to determine the relationships between the various
> tables?
> "Good" meaning some more clever way than me manually looked at
> User_Catalog,
> User_Tables, User_Tab_Columns, etc and drawing a diagram by pencil and
> paper.
>
> Or if I had to do that, a clever SQL query is probably out there that
> would help organize everything...
>
> thanks,
> Jeff
>

I'd say 50-60 tables is about where I would consider a tool, even one as heavy as Oracle Designer.
It does require some installation (which will take at least a day!) but it will deliver the required technical implementation schema in less that 30 minutes.

Now you make the considerations, time wise, whether that would be an option.

-- 
Regards,
Frank van Bortel

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Received on Wed Sep 06 2006 - 02:49:11 CDT

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