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While it looks really nice, hard to imagine it's quicker to hand draw this than reverse it out of your existing schema. I suppose if you are architecting something brand new then it can make some good sense to map it out quickly if you hate clicking and dragging your mouse around and want something version-controllable.

I would say, however, PlantUML is less pretty but more general as a tool and there are neat tools to make the diagrams directly from your database schema [0].

https://github.com/achiku/planter




> While it looks really nice, hard to imagine it's quicker to hand draw this than reverse it out of your existing schema

They have an option to take your SQL dump text and convert it back to DBML which is the DSL they use to render.


I've tried doing the SQL dump on dbdiagram a few months ago and ran into some issues. Unfortunately I don't remember specifically what, but after testing out a few other programs I ended up using the free version of https://dbschema.com/ and have been very happy with it.


Came here to ask what the DSL was. Thanks for pointing that out.

Never heard of DBML before... looks somewhat interesting.

Any other DB DSLs worth recommending?


Ah perfect - did not see that! thanks




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