Scout helps developers, DBAs, and technical teams analyze SQL Server databases, document schema objects, visualize relationships, and uncover real or inferred foreign key connections.
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Analyze tables, columns, indexes, views, stored procedures, functions, triggers, synonyms, and row counts from one desktop tool.
Show SQL Server foreign keys and infer likely virtual relationships when legacy databases rely on naming conventions instead of constraints.
Create browsable HTML documentation and GraphViz relationship diagrams that help teams understand database structure faster.
Save and reopen database metadata as a portable .scl file.
See incoming, outgoing, SQL, and inferred relationships.
Render clean PNG diagrams from generated DOT files.
Choose a discovered SQL Server instance or type one manually.
Scout extracts metadata and identifies real and inferred relationships.
Create documentation, diagrams, and shareable schema snapshots.
Understand how tables connect even when formal constraints are missing.
Open saved schema files later without immediately reconnecting to the database.
Document stored procedures, functions, views, triggers, and synonyms.
Built as a focused WinForms utility for SQL Server documentation workflows.
Use Scout to document SQL Server schemas, reveal hidden relationships, and generate clear output your team can review and share.
Scout is built for Microsoft SQL Server databases. It is designed around SQL Server metadata, stored procedures, views, functions, triggers, indexes, and foreign keys.
Virtual foreign keys are inferred relationships that appear to exist by naming convention and application logic, even when no SQL Server constraint has been created.
Scout can generate HTML documentation without GraphViz, but GraphViz is needed to render the relationship diagram PNG from the DOT file.
Yes. Scout can reopen saved .scl schema snapshots so users can review database structure without immediately reconnecting to SQL Server.
Scout gives technical teams a clearer map of SQL Server schemas, relationships, and database objects.
Scout is useful when databases are inherited, poorly documented, or missing formal relationship constraints.
Make old databases understandable again.
Give developers and analysts shared context.
Reveal dependencies between tables.
Create output that can be reviewed and shared.