Product for Creating Data Dictionary

We have a large SQL Server database that has poorly documented tables and
field names. Is there a product that will create a Word document in table
format from the actual database that can be used to add documentation about
the meaning of each field?
Will
Will
SQL Server 2000 has an option called column description
create table dbo.customer (
customer_id integer not null identity (1, 1)
, trade_name varchar (0255) not null
)
go
alter table dbo.customer add
constraint pk_customer primary key nonclustered (customer_id)
go
/* column description meta info */
execute sp_addextendedproperty N'boolean_property_01', '1', N'user', N'dbo',
N'table', N'customer', N'column', N'trade_name'
execute sp_addextendedproperty N'column_description', 'Customer trading
name', N'user', N'dbo', N'table', N'customer', N'column', N'trade_name'
go
select * from :: fn_listextendedproperty (NULL, 'user', 'dbo', 'table',
'customer', 'column', default)
go
drop table dbo.customer
go
"Will" <DELETE_westes@.earthbroadcast.com> wrote in message
news:OOrsHkGUFHA.3636@.TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
> We have a large SQL Server database that has poorly documented tables and
> field names. Is there a product that will create a Word document in
table
> format from the actual database that can be used to add documentation
about
> the meaning of each field?
> --
> Will
>
>

Product for Creating Data Dictionary

We have a large SQL Server database that has poorly documented tables and
field names. Is there a product that will create a Word document in table
format from the actual database that can be used to add documentation about
the meaning of each field?
--
WillWill
SQL Server 2000 has an option called column description
create table dbo.customer (
customer_id integer not null identity (1, 1)
, trade_name varchar (0255) not null
)
go
alter table dbo.customer add
constraint pk_customer primary key nonclustered (customer_id)
go
/* column description meta info */
execute sp_addextendedproperty N'boolean_property_01', '1', N'user', N'dbo',
N'table', N'customer', N'column', N'trade_name'
execute sp_addextendedproperty N'column_description', 'Customer trading
name', N'user', N'dbo', N'table', N'customer', N'column', N'trade_name'
go
select * from :: fn_listextendedproperty (NULL, 'user', 'dbo', 'table',
'customer', 'column', default)
go
drop table dbo.customer
go
"Will" <DELETE_westes@.earthbroadcast.com> wrote in message
news:OOrsHkGUFHA.3636@.TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
> We have a large SQL Server database that has poorly documented tables and
> field names. Is there a product that will create a Word document in
table
> format from the actual database that can be used to add documentation
about
> the meaning of each field?
> --
> Will
>
>

Processing XML data from a table

We have an XML column in a SQL Server 2005 table. Each row of this table contains one XML document.

I want to shred values from the XML documents and process these within a Data Flow. I want the Data Flow to execute once across a record set comprised of all of the XML documents.

I can shred the XML using a For-Each loop and XML Task. I'm kinda stuck on how I then get the data from variables into a Recordset or similar so that I can process this within single iteration of a Data Flow.

Or - is my approach incorrect? I seem to be building a verbose and clunky solution to this problem. I know I could accomplish the same in a pretty simple SQL statement using .value on the XML column... am I missing something? Is a SQL query just better suited to this problem?

Any help much appreciated.

James

" how I then get the data from variables into a Recordset" ... the script source component.