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Database Documentation

Database Documentation for SQL Server, Oracle and Access

Document! X is a combination of an automated Database Schema Documentation Tool and a full documentation authoring environment which can be used to create accurate, professional quality database documentation for SQL Server Access or other OLEDB databases.

Document! X is not just an automated database documentation build tool - it is also includes a fully featured documentation authoring environment allowing you to author supplementary content (descriptions of database elements, hyperlinks to related pages or web sites etc.) where required.

       

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Why Choose Document! X for Database Documentation?

  • Fast, accurate, professional quality database documentation;
  • Market leading authoring tools for creating supplementary content;
  • Document tables, columns, views, stored procedures, functions, triggers, indexes, relationships, defaults, checks, roles, users, permissions, file groups, dependencies;
  • Output includes colorized SQL / T-SQL / PL-SQL source code where available;
  • Customizable HTML based template driven output can be adapted to your requirements;
  • Generate documentation to HTML Help 1.x (CHM) or web ready pure HTML including a full Table of Contents, Index and Full Text Search.

Sample Outputs

These sample outputs illustrate how much can be generated by Document! X right out of the box. All of the Document! X Templates are fully customizable and can be easily adapted or extended to meet your specific requirements.

Live Samples

Author content in SQL Server, Source Comments and / or externally

Document! X will use the content of Access and SQL Server description properties in the generated database documentation where available. This means that you can continue to use SQL Server Management Tools or the Access Table Designer to define descriptions for your tables, columns, triggers, indexes etc. and Document! X will use them automatically.

In addition, you can include specifically formatted comments in your T-SQL code and views. Document! X will extract the comments and use them in the generated sql documentation.

Example source comments

-- ##SUMMARY This procedure is an example of using various Document! X comment types
-- ##REMARKS Single line and multi-line comments can be used
-- ##RETURNS Documents the return type of a procedure
CREATE PROCEDURE ExampleTaggedComments
  @Param1 int = NULL, --##PARAM @Param1 The first parameter
  @Param2 varchar, --##PARAM @Param2 The second parameter
  @Param3 tinyint, --##PARAM @Param3 The third parameter
AS
...

Authoring additional content externally

You can also author content in Document! X Content Files if you would like to maintain some or all of the database documentation content outside of SQL Server or T-SQL source code.

The full featured HTML Editor, Dynamic and Project Spell Check, Find and Replace and Link Check tools make authoring activities as productive as possible.

Demonstration Movies

These short movies provide a great way to discover what can be achieved using Document! X.

Documenting an Xsd Schema

This movie will take you through the process of producing documentation from an XSD Schema file using Document! X. (10 mins)

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Documenting a Javascript Library

This movie will demonstrate how Document! X can be used to create documentation for Javascript, both simple javascript function libraries as well as javascript object models and jQuery plugins and widgets. (13 mins)

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Documenting a Web Service

This movie will take you through the process of producing documentation for a Web Service (SOAP or REST) using Document! X. (11 mins)

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Documenting .NET Assemblies

This introductory movie will take you through the process of creating a new Document! X Project for one or more Microsoft .NET Assemblies (13 minutes).

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Documenting a Database

This short introductory movie will take you through the process of creating a new Document! X Project for a Database (7 minutes).

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Documenting a COM Component

This short introductory movie will take you through the process of creating a new Document! X Project for a COM Component or Type Library (6 minutes).

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Publishing to a web site, ftp server or network location

This movie demonstrates the new Publishing functionality introduced in 2015.1. Publishing makes it easy to publish output generated by Document! X or HelpStudio to a web server or network location. A range of publishing methods are supported; you can publish to an Azure web site, a web site running on IIS, a web site that supports uploading via ftp, or directly to a local network path. (11 mins)

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Automatic optimization for Tablet and Mobile devices

This video demonstrates how the Responsive Output feature allows you to generate content that automatically adapts to the device type of the browser, providing an optimal experience for Mobile, Tablet and Desktop users from a single output. (5 mins)

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Using Build Profiles to create multiple outputs

This short video provides a demonstration of how you can configure a project to create multiple outputs from a single source, with each output driven by a separate options defined in the Build Profile. (3 minutes)

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Benefits of using Document! X

Using an automated documentation tool immediately delivers the following benefits:

  1. Database documentation can be built by Document! X in moments, reducing the amount of manual effort involved in creating a documentation set to virtually zero;
  2. The documentation generated by Document! X is accurate and always up to date. Creating the same documentation manually is error prone;
  3. Producing a documentation set for your database schema makes it more maintainable as there is a structured reference to accompany the schema;

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