Database diagram / Reverse Engineering tools for SQL Server

List of database ER diagram (ERD) / schema visualization / reverse engineering tools .

dbForge Studio for MySQL

dbForge Studio for SQL Server is a powerful IDE for SQL Server management, administration, development, data reporting, and analysis. It provides users with a helpful embedded Database Diagram Design Tool that allows for designing and visualizing users' diagrams in the form of Entity Relationship Diagrams (ERD).

Commercial: Commercial
Free edition: Yes
Export: MS Excel,MS Word,Online HTML,PDF,Plain text,Printer,RTF,XML

SchemaSpy

SchemaSpy is a Java-based free and open source tool that generates interactive entity-relationship diagrams to HTML from database schema metadata analysis.

Commercial: Free
Free edition: Yes
Export: HTML

Astah

Astah's modeling tools allow you to quickly and effortlessly build diagrams that create a clear understanding among teams. By installing the reverse engineering plug-in, you can import an existing database into a visual ER diagram.

Commercial: Commercial
Free edition: Yes
Export: CSV,HTML,Image,MS Excel,RTF

Valentina Studio

Valentina Studio is a database management tool that helps to create, administer, query, and explore Valentina DB, MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, and SQLite databases for FREE.

Commercial: Commercial
Free edition: Yes
Export: -

WWW SQL Designer

WWW SQL Designer allows you to draw and create database schemas (ER diagrams) directly in the browser, without the need for any external programs. It also has the ability to import existing database design.

Commercial: Free
Free edition: Yes
Export: SQL script

Xcase

Xcase sophisticated visual interface helps you quickly design an accurate database by capturing every detail of your customer’s business information world. It provides complete and accurate reverse and forward engineering capabilities that transform your existing database into presentation quality diagrams.

Commercial: Commercial
Free edition: Yes
Export: CSV

SqlDBM

SQLDBM provides the reverse engineering feature to export your database schema as a SQL script, and then run these scripts in MSSQL Studio or SSDT (SQL Server Developer Tools) to generate the XML database-creation scripts. After that, simply upload the XML statements into SQLDBM, and then create your physical model or ERD.

Commercial: Commercial
Free edition: Yes
Export: SQL script

SQL Schema Explorer (discontinued)

SQL Schema Explorer is a open source tool that creates a dynamic website visible only to you that gives you effortless access to the tables, relationships, and data in your database.

Commercial: Free
Free edition: Yes
Export: HTML

SQLGate

SQLGate is an integrated database management and development solution that simplifies construction and operation of databases.

Commercial: Commercial
Free edition: Yes
Export: CSV,MS Excel,Plain text,SQL script

Model Xtractor

Model Xtractor is a software utility designed to inspect modeling for traditional or enhanced ER models, with support for most relational database platforms. It provides reverse engineering feature to extract information about database tables, views, columns and relationships.

Commercial: Commercial
Free edition: Yes
Export: PDF

ERBuilder Data Modeler

ERBuilder Data Modeler is extremely easy to use and provides all the features you would expect from a professional database modeling and design tool. It enables to graphically design databases by using entity relationship diagrams, reverse engineering and automatically generates the most popular SQL databases.

Commercial: Commercial
Free edition: Yes
Export: Image,Printer

DrawSQL

DrawSQL helps dev teams create beautiful schema diagrams to document their database entity relationships. The app has a strong focus on crafting a delightful user experience, with keyboard shortcuts and a modern app design so you can create your document at the speed of thought. It currently supports MySQL, PostgresSQL and SQL server. It also has an extensive library of over 200+ database schemas of popular open-source packages, useful as inspiration when architecting a new app feature.

Commercial: Commercial
Free edition: Yes
Export: HTML

SQL Manager

SQL Manager in a simple and direct way provides reverse engineering operation by building a relationship diagram on the basis of the current database's structure. The objects are arranged automatically within the diagram model.

Commercial: Commercial
Free edition: Yes
Export: HTML,Image,MS Excel,PDF,RTF

Apricot DB

Allows to perform the Reverse Engineering of all supported databases

Commercial: Free
Free edition: Yes
Export: MS Excel,PDF,PNG

Modelio

Modelio SQL Designer Module provides strong support for database modeling, from logical UML class models to relational databases. It provides reverse engineering from SQL code to SQL table diagrams.

Commercial: Commercial
Free edition: Yes
Export: -