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Database Explorer

A practical exploration tool for making sense of unfamiliar databases by surfacing schema, relationships, metadata and useful structural patterns.

PythonSQL ServerMetadataSchema Analysis

The challenge

What I wanted to explore.

Reduce the time needed to understand a database when documentation is incomplete or simply does not exist.

Current state

Still evolving.

Functional and already useful in real exploration work, while still evolving as new discovery needs appear.

Lessons learned

What I explored.

  • Metadata-driven exploration
  • Schema heuristics
  • Progressive discovery
  • Working with incomplete documentation

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