Chapter 13. Discovering Database Structure
When you design and build a database, you can keep a record of the database’s structure. If you use database design tools, those tools should provide a record of the structure for you. If you use SQL scripts to create the database’s tables, you can keep copies of the scripts so you can later see how the tables are built.
In some projects, however, you do not have total control over the database. Someone else may be in charge of the database and that person might change the table structure without telling you. You may have lost the database design or you may be required to work from a legacy database that has little or no documentation. Sometimes it may just be nice to confirm that the database thinks ...
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