Re: documenting an unknown table structure

KeepTool has a product named Hora 3 ($ 379) that you could look at. With Hora you can generate a HTML documentation of your Database.

regards Jan Dieckmann
Jan.Dieckmann_at_KeepTool.com

Posting wrote:

> Our systems integration and test laboratory has several vendor
> teammates working on their parts of a distributed system. The
> system is like nailing jelly to the wall at the moment, and there
> is little or no documentation, especially on the newest pieces.
> We are trying to stabilize the process and would like some easy
> way to document the current state of the Oracle databases. To run
> our integration tests, often we have to identify and then beg
> for that item in some table that holds the data we need to change.
>
> Are there any simple tools we could use that will render the
> current table structure buried in a running Oracle database into
> an ASCII file? I know I could issue a set of manual commands,
> but I was looking for something with a modicum of intelligence.
> We figure we can save this ASCII representation as a placeholder
> for real documentation, and for tracking changes to the database
> structure.
>
> These databases run on NT and AIX boxes. I very much appreciate
> any information you might share.
>
> Thanks alot!
>
> Lester
>
> --
> A. Lester Buck buck_at_compact.leavmeoff.com
Received on Fri Oct 02 1998 - 11:33:01 CEST