> There are any number of tools that will generate me a pretty and useful database schema diagram if I point them at a relational database. I'd even go so far

> There are any number of tools that will generate me a pretty and useful database schema diagram if I point them at a relational database. I'd even go so far as to design database schema with these ER diagram tools in mind: if the automatic diagram is messy then that's more-often-than-not a code-smell in need of refactoring (before being hit with production data).