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by bottle2 2242 days ago
Hi! This is cool, and is something I wish I had when studying database normalization back in my CS days. If you're seeking more visitors, I would send nice emails to DB professors offering it as free class material. Students could study "current open source" DB patterns, and discuss (in online discussions) the characteristics or that don't make sense.

One comment: I can't figure out how to make the diagrams full screen, and I don't like viewing it in that small box. Perhaps offer a way to maximize or download for offline viewing?
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dennisong 2242 days ago
Thanks, a big part of this idea actually came from lecturers that have been using DrawSQL for teaching in uni classes :). I agree will definitely reach out to a few more to see if this tool will be valuable.

On making it fullscreen, that's such an useful/obvious thing to include in hindsight. Thanks for the suggestion! For now you can actually click on the "DrawSQL" logo within that opens it in full screen in a new tab

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troelsSteegin 2242 days ago
eg, https://drawsql.app/templates/diagrams/wordpress-mysql?ref=e...

+1 that the logo affordance is too subtle to make the full feature set easily discoverable from a schema page.

The Export function in the full editor is nice to see. Once the JSON support is there, it would be fun to analytically compare schemas from function-set similar applications.

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