Every now and then when I’m browsing data in a database, I get tired of writing ad-hoc queries to join in the various tables I want to see, and I go looking for an app that will:
- Allow me to follow foreign key relationships
- Automatically display tables in a tree-like format based on relationships
- Compose views by automatically joining on foreign keys
I know this can be done because I wrote (and lost) such an app many years ago, but I can’t seem to find anything out there. The closest I’ve seen is generated “scaffolding” such as RoR and MS Dynamic Data.
You could try the “Data Browser” included in the tool Jailer (Screenshots). It allows you to navigate through the database based on relationships.