Database Schemas

This example demonstrates using tbls utility to generate documentation for relational database schema.

Examples (defined in doc.clj script):

• Chinook - documentation for the Chinook sample database using SQLite.
• Sakila - uses the Pagila sample database and PostgreSQL.
  It may not be desirable to connect to real database just to extract schema. This example shows how to generate docs from a static DDL SQL script by loading it into a temporary Postgres instance.

Examples of wikilinks:

• Album or chinook:Album
• actor or sakila:public.actor or sakila:actor (without the public. schema)

Diagram format considerations

tbls supports rendering diagrams as SVG (default, uses graphviz) and Mermaid.

• I find that Mermaid diagrams look a bit better, but a disadvantage is that for larger schemas the diagrams are scaled down and the text can end up illegible.
• Therefore I slightly prefer the SVG format because as a workaround one can open it in another browser tab to pan and zoom to see all details.