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How to make a data dictionary?
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22/06/2006 21:45:22
Hilmar Zonneveld
Independent Consultant
Cochabamba, Bolivia
 
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Visual FoxPro
Category:
Other
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 9 SP1
Database:
Visual FoxPro
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Thread ID:
01130869
Message ID:
01131007
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18
>>>Is exist a tool to create/modify a description of tables/fields?
>>
>>I was asked to document the database, and did it the other way round: put all the descriptions manually into the table description and the description of the individual fields, and then write a program that will generate an Excel report, extracting the comments from the DB.
>
>You may also try PDM from Downloads section here. It's a nice documenting tool.

OK, I guess I will have to try it. I think I may have looked at it a while ago, but didn't find the class documentation very useful. But I didn't specifically check the DB documentation part.
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