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Console’s review

· Reviewed by David Mytton

What we like

Single binary outputs Markdown documentation of your whole database (PG, MySQL, MariaDB, SQLite, BigQuery, & others) with one command. Configurable output format (Markdown, DOT, Mermaid, JSON, even Excel). Can diagram relationships. Includes linting function e.g. require comments. Can diff actual vs documented.

Tradeoffs

It’s a documentation tool, not for migrations or actually creating the tables from scratch from the docs. Limited support for stored procedures and functions.

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