Visual dependency viewer

The Dependency View, included in ApexSQL Edit, provide a graphical means for viewing object dependencies. This viewer can be more useful for visualizing object dependencies than the Dependency tab included in the Object Explorer. To access the Dependency Viewer, right click an object in the Schema Explorer and select Visual Dependencies for …

Objects are shown in boxes, with arrows pointing towards the objects that depend on them.

Using the toolbar in the dependency viewer, you can control the zoom level of the diagram, along with:

Model Type – The method that ApexSQL Edit uses to layout objects in the diagram

Circular – Arranges objects so that links between objects form a circle
Force Directed – Places the most used objects closer to the center of the diagram
Hierarchical – Arranges objects into horizontal tiers based on the object’s generation, with parents on the top tier and descendants below
Orthogonal – Arranges objects so that they are at right angles to each other

Dependency Type – Filters the types of dependencies that will be shown

Children Only – Only objects that depend on the selected object (child objects) will be shown
Descendants – Child objects will be shown, along with their children (descendents)
Parents and Children Only – Objects that the selected object depends on (parent objects) will be shown, along with the object’s children
Parents and Descendants – Parents and all descendants will be shown