Re: E-R diagramming tool for Linux?

From: Steven N. Hirsch <shirsch_at_adelphia.net>
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 11:45:19 GMT
Message-ID: <slrn9nt6l8.qkm.shirsch@atx.fast.net>

On 9 Aug 2001 08:35:53 GMT, David Fetter <shackle_at_fetter.org> wrote:
>Kind people,
>
>I'd like to be able to make E-R diagrams from an Oracle instance via
>Linux. I've tried GraphVis::DBI, but it doesn't seem to work on
>Oracle, and the E-R diagrams it produces aren't the greatest anyway.
>
>Is there anything out there, free by preference, commercial otherwise?

I've found 'dia' to be very useful for ER diagrams. It's part of the Gnome desktop environment, but will run fine under fvwm, kde, or whatever. There's even work-in-progress on a DDL generator which will create executable SQL from an ER schema.

Steve Received on Wed Aug 22 2001 - 06:45:19 CDT