SQL_2_HTML: Automatic Generation of HTML Database Schemas
Jon Finke
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Abstract
The ongoing development of our relational database based
system administration package, Simon, requires frequent reference
to documentation that describes the existing database tables.
To this end we have written a program that uses descriptive
information stored in the database itself, to generate a WWW tree
that documents each table in HTML, as well as an index page to
tie the whole package together. This has made looking up table
definitions simply a click or two away and has proven to be very
useful. These HTML pages are now also being included in some of
our program documentation of the Simon system.
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