# 5. Which tools help teams design and visualize database schemas?

<p class="elv-tracking-normal elv-text-default elv-font-figtree elv-text-base elv-leading-base elv-font-normal" elv="true">Designing a database schema once meant sketching diagrams by hand or maintaining separate drawings that quickly fell out of date. Today, many tools let teams build and visualize schemas, though I’ve noticed they differ in how clearly relationships are displayed, whether diagrams can be generated from existing databases, which database types are supported, and how easily schemas can be shared for review. Which tools have you used to design and visualize database schemas, and how well did they handle complex or growing designs?</p>

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- Posted at: 13 days ago
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### Comment 1

&lt;p&gt;Once a schema gets large, I don&#39;t want every table on one canvas. Being able to show just the tables involved in a particular process, then expand their relationships, would make reviews much easier. I&#39;d bring a messy existing schema to the demo rather than start with a clean example.&lt;/p&gt;

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