How to generate Entity-Relation diagram from SQL DDL? [closed]

Question

For example DbVisualizer can be used to connect to a DB and create nice diagram out of existing tables and their relations. But in this specific case I do not have a live database but I have bunch of create table and alter statements.

Is there any tool to generate similar diagrams out of SQL DDL?

Answer 1

I believe that Embarcadero's ERStudio can import a SQL script into a diagram, but it's a pricey tool to use just for something like this. You could always just create an empty database and run the scripts then point to that.

Answer 2

I found the MySQL tool MySQL Workbench to do a great job. There is a Mac OS X version. More information can be found at http://dev.mysql.com/doc/index-gui.html.

Answer 3

SQLFairy will generate graphics from plain SQL DDL files:

http://sqlfairy.sourceforge.net/

Answer 4

Visual Paradigm for UML can do this.