Want an easier way to automatically generate documentation from multiple data sources? Wish you had a better understanding of the origin of your data—and who's handled that data?
SolarWinds Database Mapper (formerly SentryOne Document) delivers powerful documentation and data lineage analysis capabilities in a cloud or software solution. With Database Mapper, you can easily maintain up-to-date documentation and ensure compliance with business rules and data privacy regulations by accurately tracking data lineage.
Database Mapper gives you powerful tools for ensuring your databases are continuously and accurately documented. Plus, the data lineage analysis capabilities help you ensure compliance by providing a visual representation of your data's origin.
Document data sources including SQL Server, SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS), SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS), Excel, Power BI, Azure Data Factory, and more
Track data lineage with a visual display that clearly shows data dependencies across your environment
Easily manage documentation tasks and view logs with an easy-to-access cloud or software solution
Whether you choose the installed or cloud version of Database Mapper, both of these options have the same features. There are a few unique benefits to each option.
By choosing the cloud solution, you leave the hosting to us and have less to manage.
With the software solution, you'll have full control over configuration and how data is stored and accessed.
Database Mapper is available in three tiers so you can choose the capabilities that fit your needs best:
Automatically document multiple data sources and easily search documentation
Generate and search documentation, view documentation history, manage metadata snapshots, and create data dictionaries
Master your data estate with end-to-end documentation capabilities, including data lineage and impact analysis to track data origin and data dependencies across your environment
With Database Mapper, you can automatically document data sources including:
Database Mapper efficiently and accurately documents your entire Microsoft Data Platform. You can configure the settings to ensure that you always have up-to-date documentation, which also helps ensure compliance with business rules and data regulations. Plus, you can export documentation in HTML format.
Accurately analyzing the origin of your data—and where it can move throughout your solutions—is critical for ensuring data integrity and compliance with business rules and data privacy regulations.
Database Mapper gives you a visual display of data lineage, so you can immediately understand data dependencies across the entire data estate.
After you've generated documentation, you can use Database Mapper to build a data dictionary to supplement the metadata, including:
Specifying who deployed a report
Showing who's responsible for maintenance of a database
Adding business definitions to technical items in the documentation
To learn more, check out this blog post and this how-to video.
With Database Mapper, you can compare historical documentation with any other historical (or current) documentation. This capability helps your team see changes between two solutions, or the same solution at different points in time, comparing differences in the generated documentation.
To learn more, check out this blog post.
Salesforce developers and analysts can make sense of their CRM data by using Database Mapper to view the structure of Salesforce data, including dependencies among Salesforce objects (such as fields, accounts, leads), workflows, and processes. Database Mapper saves time and resources by accelerating on-boarding, data cleanup, and automations.
The Environment Map in Database Mapper leverages data collected from the SQL Sentry database to create a clear map of the applications, users, client, and processes that are connected to your servers in your SQL Server environment.
What’s new in Database Mapper for Environment Map:
Check out the blog "Right-Sizing Database Mapper for Your Environment," refer to the comparison chart, or contact us to get expert advice from our team.
You can buy as many licenses as you need of Database Mapper Essentials, Standard, or Premium. We offer volume discounts for purchases of 5 or 10 Premium licenses (see the pricing section below). During the 14-day trial period, you'll be able to document and analyze one data source.
Database Mapper supports most Microsoft Data Platform sources, plus a few others, including:
Refer to the document Database Mapper and DOC xPress Licensing Guidelines to learn what's considered a data source for licensing purposes.
To get started, you'll first download the Configuration Tool and Remote Agent for Database Mapper, a cloud-based solution for database documentation and data lineage analysis. The remote agent is a service that processes the Document workload. You'll use the configuration tool to configure new solutions, then upload them to Database Mapper.
Check out this video to get started with configuring your solution and adding data sources to document. During your 15-day trial period, we'll send you additional videos that walk you through the basics of documenting databases, analyzing data lineage, and managing tasks.
You can send feedback to the SentryOne team from right in the portal. Use the smiley face icon in the upper-right corner to open up a feedback link.
Our Support team is happy to help. Please contact us if you get stuck and need assistance.
Before the trial expires, you’ll receive an email inviting you to upgrade to a paid subscription.
Database Mapper is available in Essentials, Standard, and Premium editions through an annual subscription based on a 12-month term, paid in advance, with automatic renewal at the end of the term.
Database Mapper Essentials |
Database Mapper Standard |
Database Mapper Premium |
$495/yr for 1 license |
$795/yr for 1 license |
$1,209/yr for 1 license |
Contact us for volume-based discounts $4,650/yr for 5 licenses $8,799 for 10 licenses |
Whether you choose the installed or cloud version of Database Mapper, both of these options have the same features.
Here's a comparison of capabilities among Database Mapper editions (Essentials, Standard, and Premium).
Functionality |
Database Mapper Essentials |
Database Mapper Standard |
Database Mapper Premium |
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Ability to export documentation | ![]() |
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