This script automatically generates comprehensive schema documentation that can be easily consumed by AI services for natural language querying, automated report generation, and intelligent data analysis.
2025-08-25
26 reads
Steve has a few thoughts on a rant about Stack Overflow. An experienced developer thinks much of their information is wrong and things are getting worse.
2023-08-09
288 reads
Who should create documentation for software? In many companies, it's the developers. In fact, in Redgate, often our developers are tasked with updating articles for products on our documentation site. We do have a streamlined process that has developers can submitting changes in some format (markdown? ) and an automation process that automatically updates the […]
2023-04-26
206 reads
One of the problems to which I keep returning is finding the best way to read and apply documentation for databases. As part of a series of articles I'm doing for Redgate's Product Learning, I've been demonstrating how to maintain a single source of database documentation, in JSON, and then add and update the object […]
2021-06-28 (first published: 2021-05-28)
3,564 reads
A script to document the output columns of all the SPs in a given database, with a HTML formatted document
2015-09-24 (first published: 2015-09-08)
1,923 reads
Returns server and instance information via a registered server query, regardless of SQL version.
This script is more of how to get the data, and not so much about the data returned by my choice of columns.
Tested on 2008+
2015-08-28 (first published: 2015-08-07)
1,320 reads
One of the shocks that a developer can get when starting to program in T-SQL is that there is no simple way of generating documentation for routines, structures and interfaces, in the way that Javadocs or Doxygen provides. To embed the documentation in the source is so obvious and easy that it is a wrench to be without this facility. Phil Factor suggests a solution.
2015-05-18
9,083 reads
2016-08-10 (first published: 2015-05-05)
5,478 reads
This script was designed to provide you with all the information needed to rebuild your server in case of a disaster. Current version work with 2005, 2008, 2008R2 and 2012.
2014-09-30 (first published: 2012-09-21)
8,236 reads
Documenting the database is always a challenge, and there are many techniques you can use to help all the people on your team understand what all your tables are used for. David Poole brings us an easy way to implement a framework for documentation.
2014-04-25 (first published: 2011-02-17)
14,594 reads
By gbargsley
Hello, reader! Today, I’m going to walk you through a scenario that many DBAs...
By Chris Yates
The Castle and the Keys Imagine your Azure SQL environment as a sprawling digital...
By Steve Jones
I think we might have forgotten this a bit, but on one of the...
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We are using MySQL version 5.6 in our Windows Server 2012 R2 environment. We...
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I run this command on my SQL Server 2022 database:
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