Database architecture

Hello,
I am new in database administration, I have a SQL 2000 database on server. I
need to see the architecture/design of the current running database. Is there
any tool or way to find or see the database architecture/design, so that I
can easily figure out the relations between different tables and understand
the database design.
Thanks in advance,
Leo
Use "Create Database Diagram Wizard". Add all user tables into it, which will
give you a digramatic representation of the same. Hope this will help!!!
Thanks,
Sree
"Leo_Surf" wrote:

> Hello,
> I am new in database administration, I have a SQL 2000 database on server. I
> need to see the architecture/design of the current running database. Is there
> any tool or way to find or see the database architecture/design, so that I
> can easily figure out the relations between different tables and understand
> the database design.
> Thanks in advance,
> Leo
|||Thanks Sree..
will I be able to see/understand database schema from the diagrams? or there
is any other way to do that? because in diagrams I am not able to see the
relationship betewwn the tables.
Thanks in advance...
Leo
"Sreejith G" wrote:
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> Use "Create Database Diagram Wizard". Add all user tables into it, which will
> give you a digramatic representation of the same. Hope this will help!!!
> Thanks,
> Sree
> "Leo_Surf" wrote:
|||Leo_Surf wrote:

> Thanks Sree..
> will I be able to see/understand database schema from the diagrams? or there
> is any other way to do that? because in diagrams I am not able to see the
> relationship betewwn the tables.
> Thanks in advance...
> Leo
>
The diagram should show relationships as long as the foreign keys
exist. Do they exist or are they missing from the diagram because they
aren't there? Use the Object Browser in Query Analyzer to check that
the foreign key constraints you expected are not missing.
Unfortunately Enterprise Manager's diagrams are extremely poor. They
don't use any of the proper notation for keys. They also don't easily
scale, print or embed in other documents. For any serious work you'll
want to consider using a different tool for diagrams such as Microsoft
Visio or ERwin.
David Portas, SQL Server MVP
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