How can I efficiently document a database?

Question

I am developing a database that organizes scientific data from my group and various experiments described in the literature (my experience is in science, not in project management or programming).

I currently have three documentation documents:

• end users of data
• data input
• developers (like me and my successor)

Besides user recommendations and descriptions from other databases, are there any best practices that I should follow, perhaps a latex template or mysqldump parameter that will automatically execute some documentation?

Answer 1

Doxygen SQL. SQL- DDL, Doxygen HTML/PDF/.

Answer 2

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