this would be **hugely useful**. I was surprised to see this thread as I
was just about to post a similar question.

rob

----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel Rail" <daniel@...>
To: <ib-support@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2002 10:59 AM
Subject: Re: [ib-support] Re: Include schema documentation in database


> At 03/04/2002 01:56 PM, you wrote:
> >At 06:55 AM 4/3/2002 +0000, mircostange wrote:
> >
> > >Why does Firebird not support a COMMENT clause in CREATE TABLE?
> >
> >Because InterBase SQL didn't. InterBase SQL didn't because it
> >wasn't standard. This would be an easy feature (give or take
> >comment end indicators) but more useful if the tools let you
> >see the comments.
>
> Hi,
>
> QuickDesk and IB Expert do let you view/edit the description field. I
> don't know about the other tools though, I think some others do. I find
> this capability useful for documenting, since I can printout the database
> structure including the description fields. And, it would be nice to be
> able to do it through SQL statements and to be able to retrieve them via
> SQL statements for usage in an application, instead of using the system
> tables. This is probably one of those "if you build it, people will use
> it" kind of thing.
>
> Just my 2 cents.
>
>
> Daniel Rail
> Senior System Engineer
> ACCRA Group Inc. (www.accra.ca)
> ACCRA Med Software Inc. (www.accramed.ca)
>
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