Re: ER Studio vs. Erwin vs. Oracle designer.

We use Designer for data modeling and design. It is a very robust tool, although not real intuitive. You can reverse engineer an existing database into a server model, and can further reverse to an ERD. I have never used Erwin, nor Embarcadero's ER Studio. But we do use Embarcadero's DB Artisan and, to a lesser degree, Rapid SQL. I have been in data processing for over twenty years and will say, without reservation, that DB Artisan is among the finest products I have ever used. It is a database management tool, so it may not be of as much interest to you; but it can do a lot of really neat stuff, including generating HTML descriptions of database objects. I put this info on our intranet site and the developers love it.

Good luck.

<vdolt_at_my-deja.com> wrote in message news:8popad$idg$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com...
> I am trying to buy data modeling and database design tool.
> Has anyone has any suggestions to what is better tool from these 3 to
> use? I've got a quote from Embarcadero - 3 grand for Oracle suite (DB
> Artisan, Rapid SQL and ER studio) I don't really neeed all of them but
> they won't sell it separately. How is Oracle designer? Is there a way
> to reverse engineer existing models?
>
> P.S. We have only Oracle databases, so cross-platform capabilities are
> really irrelevant.
>
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Received on Wed Sep 13 2000 - 17:34:48 CDT