Re: Creating a data model from a current existing database?

From: Stephen Bell <stephen.bell_at_cgi.ca>
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 08:19:15 -0400
Message-ID: <3B4AF2C3.6EB8D508@cgi.ca>

Hi Rashyid,

Sure..there are several tools that allow you to do this..some that I've seen are
ER Win, Oracle Designer, Visio, ER Studio....

They all allow you to connect to an existing database and reverse engineer it ...

Hope this helps,

Steve

Rashyid wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> I am currently trying to reverse engineer a database to be implemented
> into another system. I was wondering whether there are other ways of
> 'automatically' creating/generating the data model/schema from an
> Oracle 8i database without actually going through each table one by
> one and checking the dependencies manually as it would be very time
> consuming, and time is of the essence (isn't it always). If not, are
> there any methods/tools that would assist me in doing so?
>
> Thanks
Received on Tue Jul 10 2001 - 07:19:15 CDT