p.s. this just in... another approach is to document your tables and relationships using only ddl (data definition language -- the create statements, etc.) that's not as friendly as a data model or relationship diagram, but... i don't know anything further about this, but here's a free sql/server utility that will pull the ddl out for you -- http://www.sqlservercentral.com/products/bwunder/archiveutility/ rudy