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If you don't need a tool where you can edit an ERD, try SchemaSpy it generates a nice HTML report of all tables, columns and creates an ER diagram based on declared foreign keys. I have never used it with SQL Server, but with Oracle and Postgres it also extracts the comments for tables and columns. I think that relies on the JDBC driver returning them properly, not sure if the MS driver does that (using the... Source: over 2 years ago
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