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SchemaSpy – Automatic ERD
SchemaSpy is one of these tools that most sysadmins seldom use, it is mostly used by developers or DB admins. A quote from the site will explain the goal of this tool clearly: “Do you hate starting on a new project and having to try to figure out someone else’s idea of a database? “. One should remember that with the rapid development that usually happen at startups, your own project can look like someone else’s after a couple of weeks, documentation is not the goal, and rightly so. After some fiddling with the installation (it is java) and one run you’ll have a nice ERD of your database with some other goodies. Now you have the option of running it whenever you want or you can be really nice to the developers and do automatic nightly runs, it might pay off in ways you never dreamed of.
