> Random, but honest, question: Do other folks find DB diagrams to actually be useful? Personally, yes, although TBH I haven't tried them with DBs have hugely

> Random, but honest, question: Do other folks find DB diagrams to actually be useful? Personally, yes, although TBH I haven't tried them with DBs have hugely wide tables or a high number of tables. > things quickly become a morass of tons of intersecting relationship lines, and I just end up spending all my time trying to see how things are actually connected. So look at a "sub-diagram" - diagram of some of the tables. > a tree view of all the tables in a list, Just think of the diagram as that tree view and choose an arbitrary order of visitation of the nodes, e.g. Left-to-Right then Top-to-Bottom.