[ILUG] Mysql schema viewer.

[Nick Murtagh]

jason corcoran wrote:
> I have to get a document to a 3rd party QA team detailing 
> a mysql (on Linux :) database.
> 
> It is a legacy database and we have no design docs. Is there 
> a tool like oxygen that will create a nice HTML, XML , what 
> ever.. schema of the database. Not sure what subject titles to goggle on.

You want something that will reverse engineer a MySQL database
and produce a schema or ERD diagram. So search for "MySQL ERD".

There are loads of proprietary programs that do this. If you want
something open source you could try:

     http://dbschemaviewer.sourceforge.net/

It's a plugin for eclipse.