About

Marshall Microsoft SQL Server diagrams between a database and files on disk, for checking in to source control.

https://github.com/timabell/database-diagram-scm

This is a packaging and modification of pieces of the puzzle provided by others in the community.

Thanks to the lovely folks at 3Chillies for allowing me to publish the changes I made while contracting for them.

Upstream / references

History

• http://bytes.com/topic/sql-server/answers/81534-script-save-export-sql-database-diagrams - original Sql 2000 script by Clay alternate link via google groups
• http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/15080/Script-SQL-Server-diagrams-to-a-file - Craig's Sql 2005 extension of Clay's script
• http://joelmansford.wordpress.com/2008/04/01/scripting-sql-server-diagrams-to-files-for-source-control/ - Joel's extension of Craig's work - a powershell scripting wrapper
• This version based on the above (thanks 3 Chilles!)
• Pull requests into this repo :-D (hopefully)

References

• http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms178158.aspx - MSDN: Using Large-Value Data Types
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/895228/add-database-diagram-to-source-control/895277#895277
• http://stackoverflow.com/a/7976784/10245

Contributors

• Clay Beatty
• Craig Dunn - https://github.com/conceptdev
• Joel Mansford
• Tim Abell tim@timwise.co.uk
• 3Chillies - http://www.3chillies.co.uk/
• Anyone else in the git history ;-)

Licence

MIT Licence - http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT

Permission has been gained from all of the above authors to licence this code under the MIT Licence.