Description

It's never been more convenient to document your database designs, the structures of your schemas, or your entire data models. Enter dbForge Documenter for SQL Server, a universal solution that helps developers, architects, and analysts automate the generation of customizable and searchable database documentation.

• Generate SQL database documentation in HTML, PDF, and Markdown
• Get complete overviews of database schemas
• View and inspect inter-object dependencies
• Include or change object descriptions
• Scrutinize the largest tables and indexes
• Customize documentation layouts with WYSIWYG-based templates
• Distribute database documentation from the command line

Integrated AI Assistant

dbForge Documenter includes an integrated AI Assistant that will completely reinvent your experience of SQL development with the following features.

• Context-aware query generation
• Conversion of natural language to SQL
• Query optimization
• SQL explanations

• SQL troubleshooting
• Error analysis and clarifications
• AI chat
• Web search

Easy search for database objects

As you type the name of a required object in the search field, our SQL Server documentation tool highlights the matching text in the object tree. You can also navigate throughout the documentation via built-in hyperlinks.

Documenter generates database documentation in multiple formats:

• HTML – Hypertext Markup Language file format is suitable for databases to be published on the web
• PDF – Portable Document Format is good for printing and distributing to various systems and devices
• Markdown – a lightweight markup language with plain text formatting syntax that can be converted to many output formats; it is ideal for version control systems like Git

The formats are searchable, which is especially convenient for large databases.

Extended information about database structures

dbForge Documenter extracts extensive database info that includes a wide range of SQL object types, their details and properties, as well as inter-object dependencies and DDL. The info covers the following:

• Owners
• Descriptions
• Properties
• Table and view columns

• Indexes and constraints
• Routine parameters
• Creation scripts
• Object dependencies

Self-documenting SQL objects

The information about database objects is extracted from the extended properties of the objects to which these properties are attributed.

Documenter allows modifying object descriptions or adding them in case they are not specified.

Rich customization

Documenter supports a selection of individual database objects and their properties that will be documented. The tool also contains a rich set of style templates and allows changing documentation layout using various Bootstrap themes.

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