Re: Problems with ERwin and Oracle8 check constraints and comments

Stefan,

I've encountered these problems, although the UK support has promised they will be fixed in release 4.0 of ERWin in April.

There are a lot more problems in the volumetrics editor.

Stefan Misch wrote:
>
> Hi everybody !
>
> I have two problems with ERwin (3.5.2-SP2) which I could not solve with
> Platinum/CAI support (I got no answer), nor found any hint in their
> knowledge base:
>
> (1) when I add a column in an existing table in an Erwin modell and generate
> an alter-script using the "Alter database" task, the column is added, but
> the column's comment not. I have to do another "alter database", then ERwin
> generates a second script with just the "comment on column..." statement.
>
> (2) TABLE and COLUMN check constraints
> The problem here is that when I do an "alter database" with the options
> "Table check" and "Column check" enabled in the "Set Options" dialog, these
> options generate lots of differences between my model and the database. For
> example:
>
> If I define a not null column with a check constraint :CHECK EXAMPLE_YN in
> ('Y', 'N') ERwin reports
>
> (a) EXAMPLE_YN in ('Y', 'N') as a table check constraint on the database
> side, but none (displayed as "---") on the model side
>
> (b) and further down the list a difference at column EXAMPLE_YN on a line
> tagged "check": CHECK EXAMPLE_YN in ('Y', 'N') on the modell side and
> "EXAMPLE_YN IS NOT NULL" on the database side
>
> Is this a bug in ERwin or is something wrong with my modell, set option or
> installation ?
>
> Thanks for any tip !
> Stefan.
Received on Wed Feb 02 2000 - 18:20:37 CST