QAD Data Warehouse Designer includes the ability to document the data warehouse based on the information stored against the metadata for all the tables and columns in the data warehouse.

The documentation will only be meaningful if information is stored in the metadata. The business definition and a description should be stored against all columns that will be visible to end users.

The following sections describe how to generate (see "Creating Documentation" on page 680) and read (see "Reading the Documentation" on page 685) the documentation.

Also included is a section on information that is available to assist in the connection of end user query tools (see "Query Tool Access" on page 701).