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 Posted by Cindy on 10/03/07 23:53 
On Oct 3, 1:52 pm, Ed Murphy <emurph...@socal.rr.com> wrote: 
> Cindy wrote: 
> > If we had the ability to generate a database table that lists joins 
> > that were used - imagine a tool where you plug in the names of 4 
> > tables, for example, and then you get a report where you see all the 
> > fields, join types, and join type operators that were used between 
> > those 4 tables - along with the frequency of use.  It seems it would 
> > go a long way toward getting a database in better shape to document 
> > common relationships. 
> 
> You might want to run a Profiler trace for a while, send output to a 
> new table, then query the table for accesses to a table that you're 
> interested in.  You can also look at sysobjects and syscomments to 
> determine which views access a given table (especially if the Profiler 
> output cites the view rather than the underlying tables; I've mostly 
> used Profiler to deal with stored procedures accessing tables directly, 
> so I don't know the answer to that one without testing it). 
 
Good idea - thanks all!
 
  
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