Generate Documentation
for SQL Server Databases Easily

Generating SQL Server database documentation has never been simpler. Documenter for SQL Server is a universal solution that helps automate the creation of your database documentation and customize it according to your needs. With the dbForge database documentation tool, you can eliminate tedious and time-consuming manual work and satisfy audit requirements by keeping complete documentation at hand.

  • Generate SQL database documentation in HTML, PDF and other formats
  • Eliminate tiring and laborious manual creation of documentation
  • Distribute documentation automatically through the command line
  • Customize layouts with WYSIWYG-based templates
  • View and inspect inter-object dependencies
  • Include or change object descriptions
  • Display the largest tables and indexes
  • Overview database schemas
Features

Extended information about the database structure

dbForge Documenter extracts extensive database info including a wide range of SQL object types, their details and properties, as well as inter-object dependencies and DDL codes.

The information about the following objects is available in the documentation:
  • Owners
  • Descriptions
  • Properties
  • Table and view columns
  • Indexes and constraints
  • Routine parameters
  • Creation scripts
  • Object dependencies
Broad picture of database structure

Rich customization features

Documenter supports a selection of individual database objects and their properties that will be documented. The tool also contains a rich set of style templates as well as allows changing documentation layout using various Bootstrap themes.

Rich customization features

Self-documenting SQL objects

The information about most of database objects is extracted from the extended properties of the objects to which these properties are attributed.

Documenter allows modifying object descriptions or adding them in case they are not specified.

Extended properties support

Supported formats

Documenter generates documentation from a database in multiple formats:

  • HTML - Hypertext Markup Language file format is suitable for databases to be published on the web
  • PDF - Portable Document Format is good for printing and distributing to various systems and devices
  • Markdown - a lightweight markup language with plain text formatting syntax that can be converted to many output formats

The formats are searchable, which is especially convenient for large databases.

Formats supported

Searchable documentation

Search for database objects across the generated documentation. As you type the name of a required object in the search field, our SQL Server documentation tool highlights the matching text in the object tree. You can also navigate throughout the documentation via built-in hyperlinks.

Searchable documentation

SSMS Integration

Documenter can be integrated seamlessly with Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio as an SSMS add-in.

Launch our database documentation tool directly from the SSMS Object Explorer without closing the environment.

SSMS Integration

Command-line interface

  • Use the command-line interface or PowerShell to run routine documenting tasks in a single click
  • Save your settings as a command-line execution file (.bat) and run it whenever you need
  • Schedule .bat file execution with Windows Scheduler
Command-Line Interface

Explore Examples

Study the examples of documentation generated by dbForge Documenter for the AdventureWorks and WideWorldImporters sample databases and see what the tool can do.
Adventure Works 2017 HTML Documentation
Adventure Works 2017 PDF Documentation
WideWorldImporters PDF Documentation
WideWorldImporters HLML Documentation

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