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sunitabeck
Flowing Fount of Yak Knowledge
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 Posted - 11/09/2012 : 06:53:12
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A few things:
1. Talk to business users or other developers/DBA's to get an understanding of the business logic that the database is supporting.
2. Read up any documentation that previous developers and/or the vendor has provided
3. Use SQL Server's database diagrams capability to visualize the tables and relationships - for me, this is one of the best tools for getting a sense of the lay of the land.
4. Look at the stored procedures, views, functions to see what they do , what the signatures are, which business clients make use of them, how they affect the tables and databases etc.
5. Experiment with the database in a development environment.
In other words, a lot work :) |
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