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SchemaCrawler has support for most databases that have a JDBC driver.
SpecsUpdate
PlatformsWindows, Linux, Mac
TechnologyJava
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Pros
Pro Many options for output formats in addition to graphical
The text-based output serves for database documentation, and is designed to be diff-ed against other database schemas.
Pro Extensive and detailed documentation online
Including visuals of the results of command-line option usage.
Pro Free
Cons
Con Need Java
Con Does not work with schema dumpfiles
SchemaCrawler has no methods for dealing with when you only have a schema generated via something like (mysqldump --no-data [options] >schema-only_dump.sql) , and do not currently have access to a live database to connect with.
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