Question

Referencing a previous question, it doesn’t seem possible to easily autogenerate a UML or ERD graph. How can this be done? Even the the detail which describe fudforum.*; provides would do the trick, except that you can’t use a wildcard.

Something like mysqldump -d -u <username> -p<password> -h <hostname> <dbname> but more readable?

It looks like devart doesn’t run on Linux, but I’m looking into that.

mysql:

mysql> 
mysql> describe fudforum.fud30_xmlagg;
+----------------+--------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+
| Field          | Type         | Null | Key | Default | Extra          |
+----------------+--------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+
| id             | int(11)      | NO   | PRI | NULL    | auto_increment |
| name           | varchar(255) | NO   |     |         |                |
| url            | varchar(255) | NO   |     |         |                |
| forum_id       | int(11)      | NO   | MUL | 0       |                |
| xmlagg_opt     | int(11)      | NO   |     | 2       |                |
| last_load_date | bigint(20)   | NO   |     | 0       |                |
| custom_sig     | text         | YES  |     | NULL    |                |
+----------------+--------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+
7 rows in set (0.04 sec)

mysql> 
mysql> quit;
Bye
thufir@dur:~$ 

Answer 1

mysql workbench can reverse engineer and create erd’s

http://www.mysql.com/products/workbench/