RE: Documenting databases

2003-12-10 Thread Thater, William
-Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2003 7:19 PMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: Re: Documenting databases The internal stuff can be documented with OraSnap. Just google for it. It's free

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2003-12-10 Thread Ron Rogers
Alan, When I started working at my present job there was zip,nada,zilch.. for database documentation. I started with the basics of: describe every table. describe the table data source location and provider and method of loading the data into the table. describe who or how the data in the table

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2003-12-10 Thread Stephane Faroult
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2003-12-10 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
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2003-12-10 Thread Yong Huang
I used to document database objects (including columns) with the COMMENT commands. I stopped doing that because I think it unnecessarily increases the size of data dictionary. It's just a little, though. Yong Huang Daniel Hanks wrote: How about in each database itself. COMMENT ON TABLE|COLUMN

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2003-12-10 Thread Michael Milligan
Alan, That sounds like a good candidate for a simple database application written in PL/SQL. Create a schema and model your app. It shouldn't require too many tables. Since you have Oracle and non-oracle information to store, most of the Oracle information could be extracted from the data

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2003-12-10 Thread Jared . Still
recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:Re: Documenting databases Don't know if this has been mentioned or if it does enough of what you're looking for but you can pick up something called RDA (remote diagnostic agent) from Oracle that'll give you an overview of OS

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2003-12-10 Thread alan . aschenbrenner
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2003-12-10 Thread Tim Gorman
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2003-12-09 Thread alan . aschenbrenner
Recently our database manager has asked us to do the unthinkable document our databases! To make matters worse, and without our input, he went ahead and created a schema and put it in an Access database (using tables to make it look like a speadsheet). Either we use his idea or come

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2003-12-09 Thread Daniel Hanks
On Tue, 9 Dec 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Recently our database manager has asked us to do the unthinkable document our databases! To make matters worse, and without our input, he went ahead and created a schema and put it in an Access database (using tables to make it look like a

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2003-12-09 Thread alan . aschenbrenner
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2003-12-09 Thread Eric King
I think you can download a software called DataPublisher from AgileInfoSoftware, it will automatically document the database for you. http://www.agileinfosoftware.com/download/products.asp. The output is very impressive. Eric - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

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2003-12-09 Thread Jared . Still
PROTECTED] cc: Subject:Re: Documenting databases Dan, That's a good idea for documenting structures inside the database. However, my database manager wants more high level info: database name / host, oracle version, listeners, applications that use it, cron job descriptions

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2003-12-09 Thread Kip . Bryant
:34 PM | Please respond to ORACLE-L |To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] |cc: |Subject:Re: Documenting databases |Dan, |That's a good idea for documenting structures inside the database. |However, my database manager wants more

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2003-12-09 Thread Eric King
|To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] |cc: |Subject:Re: Documenting databases |Dan, |That's a good idea for documenting structures inside the database. |However, my database manager wants more high level info: database name