Document a database in minutes, not days.
VS Code, desktop and command line. Windows, Mac and Linux. One licence covers all three.
Browse SQL Server and Azure SQL databases, edit the description on every object, and document them as HTML, Markdown, Word or PDF, with diagrams and links. Only the structure is read, never table data.
Pick your databases and formats and Benchdog writes the lot: a cover, then a page for every table, view, procedure, function, trigger, type, sequence, synonym, schema, user and role. Several databases make one document, and a server page can sum up each server.
Share the format each reader wants. HTML is a folder of pages, with a tree and a filter, that opens straight from disk, Markdown suits a GitHub or Azure DevOps wiki, and Word and PDF are one file with bookmarks, links and page numbers.
Each table's page draws the tables linked to it by foreign keys, and code draws what it uses and what uses it. In HTML, click a box to open its page or save the diagram as SVG; in PDF, diagrams stay sharp at any zoom.
Table pages show columns with key marks, indexes, foreign keys, constraints, triggers, permissions, what uses them and the CREATE script. Every name that is another object links to its page, and a foreign key jumps to the exact column it points at.
Browse each database in SSMS's groups, with row counts from SQL Server's catalogue, and write the description for any object, column or parameter. It is saved in the database as MS_Description, so SSMS and your documents both show it.
Save the databases, formats, folder and cover in a .sqldoc.json file, then make the same documents again from the desktop app, VS Code or the command line. In VS Code the file gets autocomplete, and any problem shows on its line.
Put your title, author and copyright on the cover and in every footer, add your logo, and restyle the HTML with your own CSS. Leave out objects by name with wildcards, whole kinds such as users, or sections such as scripts.
Azure SQL uses your Benchdog sign-in, and SQL Server on your network can use your Windows account, with no Benchdog sign-in at all. For servers that only allow SQL logins, the password stays in memory, or in the system's secure store if you ask.