Database diagram / Reverse Engineering tools for SQL Server

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

ModelSphere

Open ModelSphere is a powerful data, process and UML modeling tool - supporting user interfaces in English and French.

Commercial: Free
Free edition: Yes
Export: -

Oracle SQL Developer Data Modeler

Oracle SQL Developer Data Modeler is a free graphical tool that enhances productivity and simplifies data modeling tasks.

Commercial: Free
Free edition: Yes
Export: Image,PDF,SVG

SAP Sybase PowerDesigner

PowerDesigner is the industry-leading business process / data modeling software and metadata management solution for data architecture, information architecture, and enterprise architecture.

Commercial: Commercial
Free edition: No
Export: EMF,HTML,Image,RTF,SVG

Schema Surf

Atlantis Schema Surf is a free animated graphing tool which allows you to easily visualize the dependencies between the objects in your SQL Server databases in a live entity ER diagram.

Commercial: Commercial
Free edition: Yes
Export: Image

SchemaCrawler

SchemaCrawler is a free database schema discovery and comprehension tool. It has grep functionality that allows you to search for table and column names using regular expressions.

Commercial: Free
Free edition: Yes
Export: CSV,HTML,JSON,Plain text

SQL Database Studiio

SQL Database Studio automates repetitive tasks such as filtering, sorting, searching, and much more.

Commercial: Commercial
Free edition: No
Export: Image

Toad Data Modeler

Toad Data Modeler enables developers, DBAs, and designers to create, maintain, and document quality database designs and structures across various database platforms.

Commercial: Commercial
Free edition: No
Export: HTML,PDF,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: -

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

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

dModelAid

dModelAid is the perfect modeling tool for documenting a complex database design in a simple, interactive diagram. It enables you to upload script from your database to generate a complete model.

Commercial: Commercial
Free edition: No
Export: SQL script

Aqua Data Studio Entity Relationship Modeler

The Aqua Data Studio Entity Relationship Modeler (ER Modeler) helps you design physical database models for all major RDBMS vendors and versions. An ER diagram can be extracted from an existing database and its schema objects displayed as a model by using Tools->ER Diagram Generator in the Server Browser.

Commercial: Commercial
Free edition: No
Export: HTML,Image,Printer

Visual Paradigm

Visual Paradigm supports reverse engineering ERD from existing database. By visualizing a database schema in ERD, you can re-edit it and patch changes back to the database, or you can produce a data specification that acts as a reference for programmers who need to access the database.

Commercial: Commercial
Free edition: No
Export: EMF,Image,SVG

Vertabelo

Vertabelo is a database modeler that provides reverse engineering feature to simply upload an existing database using a simple command-line tool. The reverse engineering tool lays out the database diagram automatically, so you'll have to manually adjust your diagram in Vertabelo.

Commercial: Commercial
Free edition: No
Export: Image,SQL script

DeZign for Databases

DeZign for Databases lets you visualize database structures or reverse-engineer existing databases to modify, document, analyze, and optimize.

Commercial: Commercial
Free edition: No
Export: EMF,Image,Printer