Re: Visio and Oracle?

"Henrootje" <HenroV_at_gmail.com> schreef in bericht news:1193132330.337060.160580_at_i13g2000prf.googlegroups.com...
>I did not say that Visio is free. I am legally using Visio, that is
> why I wanted to use it.
> I am doing a degree in ICT (Bachelor of ICT) besides my job. One of
> the courses is desiging databases. That is why I want to analyze
> existing database structures.
> But according to the reactions here Visio is not the right tool to do
> this.
> Then I have to look for an alternative but budget is limited. I hoped
> there would be some tool(s) I could use to help me analyse existing
> databases.
> If you know of any good tools, I would like to know which those would
> be. Maybe I can find some student licensing program.
> But since I just started things do no t need to be overly complicated.
> Is there anything you can point me too?
>
> TIA, Henro
>
>
>
> On 22 okt, 17:40, DA Morgan <damor..._at_psoug.org> wrote:
>> Henrootje wrote:
>> > It is Oracle9i Enterprise Edition Release 9.2.0.6.0 - Production.
>>
>> > I understand Visio is not very good for the tasks I mentioned. Maybe
>> > suggestions for other free toils?
>> > Preferably a tool that can talk to MySQL as wel......
>>
>> > TIA,
>>
>> > Henro
>>
>> > On 18 okt, 17:09, DA Morgan <damor..._at_psoug.org> wrote:
>> >> Henrootje wrote:
>> >>> Can anyone tell me how I can reverse engineer an Oracle database from
>> >>> Visio Professional 2003?
>> >>> I am running a Oracle 9 database, just installed the 10g Oracle
>> >>> Client
>> >>> on Vista but I simply cannot connect....
>> >>> Oracle keeps whining about the tnsnames.ora file which it keeps
>> >>> telling me it can't parse.................
>> >>> Suggestions?
>> >> Unless your database contains nothing but heap tables and B*Tree
>> >> indexes it can not be done. Visio is a brain-dead tool barely able
>> >> to support SQL Server. Try to get Visio to recognize a sequence
>> >> object, or an object view, or just about anything else and you are
>> >> doomed to failure.
>>
>> >> PS: There is no such thing as "Oracle 9." Is it 9.0.1 or 9.2.0.8?
>> >> It matters in almost all cases.
>> >> --
>> >> Daniel A. Morgan
>> >> University of Washington
>> >> damor..._at_x.washington.edu (replace x with u to respond)
>> >> Puget Sound Oracle Users Groupwww.psoug.org
>>
>> Visio is free?
>>
>> There are no good free tools that do ERDs. There are a lot of lousy
>> tools that do a poor job and only with basic object and column types.
>> If you want something decent you will need to open your wallet.
>> --
>> Daniel A. Morgan
>> University of Washington
>> damor..._at_x.washington.edu (replace x with u to respond)
>> Puget Sound Oracle Users Groupwww.psoug.org
>
>

Henrootje,

please do not top post, some people around here don't like that (I couldn't care less though).

Since you are a student, and don't have to use the tools commercially, you could use Oracle Designer. It's free for you..... but installing and using it isn't very straight forward.

Shakespeare Received on Tue Oct 23 2007 - 07:47:33 CDT