Re: Can Toad do 'reverse engineer'?

From: Peter McLarty <peter.mclarty_at_pacificdbms.com.au>
Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2008 22:26:28 +1000
Message-ID: <48C12574.5010703@pacificdbms.com.au>


>
> Depending on your needs there is pretty good functionality on JDeveloper for this,not sure how it would scale to large schema's, I mever tried it. You can make an offline schema and then as part of that create an ER diagram, its good at drawing it out, I used it last year to do a graphical representaion of a really suspect view in Peoplesoft, it was a flagship of bad when JDeveloper drew it
>

HTH Rich Jesse wrote:
> I don't think what you're looking to do is one of the strengths of Toad for
> Oracle v9.6. For a "whole database", you'll most likely want a dedicated
> modeling tool. Many of the available tools are listed here:
>
> http://savage.net.au/Ron/html/drawing-tools.html
>
> ...including Toad Data Modeler (separate from Toad for Oracle that you
> already have), with which I have done what you are requesting. I'll leave
> it up to you to judge for yourself. I'm sure your Quest rep can get you
> started.
>
> HTH! GL!
>
> Rich
>
> Disclaimer: I'm a Toad bigot, using it since v4. See also http://asktoad.com
>
>
>> I have TOAD profession version 9.6. I checked around Toad and can NOT find
>> "reverse engineer" function in it. What I want is tool can get 'whole
>> database" master-detail relationship and draw a graphic.
>>
>> Does anyone know Toad can do it?
>>
>> If NOT any "free" tool an do it?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>

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