On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 06:29:04PM -0500, Bob Tanner wrote: > I'm looking for a tool under linux that can figure out database schemas when all > you got is an ODBC datasource. > > No laughing please... :-P > > What I tried first was to setup the ODBC datasource and have MS Access (yeah, > yeah, yeah) import the database. MS Access puked, the database is too large > (there is proof that MS Access sucks for any real database work). > > I'm not a DB guru, so my efforts have stopped there. I'd like to stay on Linux, > but if there is a tool (windows only) I'll look at that too. Bob, I don't remember the name right now but it's something in Perl. It can query a database and extract the schema. Spend some time on CPAN and you'll find it. If my memory returns, I will post again. florin -- "If it's not broken, let's fix it till it is." 41A9 2BDE 8E11 F1C5 87A6 03EE 34B3 E075 3B90 DFE4 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 230 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20011010/76f4e31e/attachment.pgp