Re: ER/Win vs Designer/2000 - Which is better?

In article <33418390.486_at_evolving.com>,

   Nathan Secrist <nsecrist_at_evolving.com> wrote:
>We are in the process of evaluating ER/Win and Designer/2000 for
>our Case Tool/Data Modeling Tool.

The latest version of erwin (2.6) does incremental on-line alteration of model or database, using either as the control (they call it bi-directional sync). you can decide ad-hoc whether to import an object into the model, or export a design change into the database. ODBC connections can be made to most vendors.

You are limited to a physical model which may also contain business-conceptual aliases for the physical objects. Erwin is very easy to learn.

The oracle case tool is comprehensive, and significantly harder to learn and use at first. It is, of course, oracle-centric.

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Dave Mausner, Consulting Manager, Braun Technology Group, Chicago.