DbDoc
You have a mysql database with a bunch of tables, each table having lots of columns. How do you describle it to someone? Just run dbdoc, and it will create an entire set of documentations, with table names, column names, types etc. You can fill in the details and ship it off to whoever you want to explain!
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This program and its source code is licensed under the BSD 2-Clause license.
Last updated sometime in 2006.