Re: ERwin vs. Visio

Actually - you can do all this w/ Viseo Professional - I have no clue as to how it compares with other tools - but Professional does a LOT more than Viseo Standard.

Gordon Klein

"Luis Aguayo" <laguayo_at_vtr.net> wrote in message news:a9lgro$ddk$1_at_news.nivel5.cl...
> Erwin it's a modeling tool, Visio it's only a CAD ( graphical, design)
tool,
> instead of erwin i would recomend dataarchitect, by Sybase, as or better
> than erwin you could create a conecptual model, then migrate to phisical
> model and the create the scripts to create the Database, tables, indexes,
> constraints.
>
> If you don't want real assistance and your problem it's the good graphic,
> Visio it's great but if you want a complete tool to design, create and
> manage databases, you need Erwin or dataarchitect, even you could "read"
the
> actual structure ( reverse engeenering) of a database and create a
phisical
> model, great!
>
> Good luck from Santiago, Chile
> Luis Aguayo
>
>
>
> "Robert D. Perry" <rdperry_at_gowebway.com> escribió en el mensaje
> news:e4fbf364.0204171834.794ea613_at_posting.google.com...
> > Besides the price, can anyone give me the pro's and con's of these
> > data modelling tools. Cost is strong determining factor for us but I
> > would like for clearly understand the merits of both before making a
> > possible short sighted decision. If there any articles or web sights
> > you can recommend, I would appreciate it. The VISIO did not provide
> > enough information for me.
>
>
Received on Thu Apr 18 2002 - 18:56:37 CDT