Database Documentation

[macca the hacke]

Hi All

I have spent the last 6 months designing/building a database for the company I work for. Everything has gone well and all users are happy

I have just been tasked with writing documentation for the database. Although I have been building access databases for about 5 years, believe it or not I have never had to provide documentation before.

Is there any standard I should follow, or is there any reference material that would be good to study? I have to write 2 versions - a technical version and a non technical users guide.

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks

Macca

 

[wazz]

- database design for mere mortals (Hernandez) provides very useful forms for documenting (tech)
- access has a built in documenter (tools/analyze/documenter) (tech)

 

[Ron_dK]

You can use the documenter to see how your Dbase is configurated. The documenter is at :
Tools > Analyse> Documenter. Once there you can define what you want to document in terms of forms, relationships, tables, etc.