dennisong

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   by dennisong 6y ago

   Agree! Actually just added full-screen mode based on your suggestion today
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   by dennisong 6y ago

   Fair point, changed that now, thanks for the feedback!
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   by dennisong 6y ago

   Thanks for the feedback, wasn't aware of the curated list rule before. Good to know for the future. Also, fixed up the naming for the HN template as well, cheers!
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   by dennisong 6y ago

   Great suggestion! (and an obvious oversight on my end). I've just added this in today - thanks
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   by dennisong 6y ago

   Other than the visual differences in the output diagram, I think the other main difference is the way the table & columns are created. dbdiagram is freeform text-based and parses that to generate the diagram, while in DrawSQL there&#x27
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   by dennisong 6y ago

   Thanks for comment! Great suggestion - I agree, having an easy way to view the diagrams in full screen would be so useful and solve that. For now you can actually click on the "DrawSQL" logo within that opens it in full screen in
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   by dennisong 6y ago

   If you imported the diagram from a SQL DDL script, then it does generate relationships based on the foreign keys. I can then add the other missing ones. In the future there will be smarter ways to infer them, e.g. searching for {table_name}
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   by dennisong 6y ago

   Thanks! Definitely put a lot of attention on the UX so glad to hear it's been a differentiator. Auto-layout would indeed be nice might be a bit of a challenge tech-wise. Thanks for suggesting it!
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   by dennisong 6y ago

   Thanks, good to know of the alternate constraints in other companies. Pricing aside, indeed it would be a different challenge tech-wise to have this as an offline tool. My motivation for building this stemmed from the use-case of smaller-me
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    by dennisong 6y ago

    Interesting, though I think that will make more sense in the future when new features to better compartmentalize sections of the diagram is introduced. I imagine it will be a mess of lines right now haha
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    by dennisong 6y ago

    Thanks, a big part of this idea actually came from lecturers that have been using DrawSQL for teaching in uni classes :). I agree will definitely reach out to a few more to see if this tool will be valuable. On making it fullscreen, that&#x
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    by dennisong 6y ago

    Hey all, maker of DrawSQL here. To dog-food the app over the past year, I've been mapping out the database schemas of open-source packages and apps... lots of them in fact! Then it clicked, these collected diagrams could be useful for
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    Gallery of database schema diagrams of open-source packages(drawsql.app)

    379 points by dennisong 6y ago|65 comments