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rds207
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198 Posts

Posted - 2009-07-29 : 14:11:41
could any one suggest me the best way to identify the realtionships between the tables in a huge database, there are about 200-300 tables i need to analyse and document their columns and relationships.I dont know where to start from,i am new to my job,please help

tkizer
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Posted - 2009-07-29 : 14:55:17
SQL Server Management Studio has a built-in diagramming tool. Start with that or you can try third-party tools such as ERwin and Visio, which can reverse engineer a schema.

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