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

Nathan Secrist wrote:
>
> Database Designers/DBAs:
>
> We are in the process of evaluating ER/Win and Designer/2000 for
> our Case Tool/Data Modeling Tool.
>
> We will be using the software for the following tasks:
>
> Entity-Relationship Diagrams
> Logical Modeling
> Physical Modeling
> Maintaining a Data Repository
> Automatically generate Oracle DDL from the Repository
> Reverse Re-Engineer Oracle Tables back into the repository
>
> If anyone can give me some feedback on whether or not you have
> used 1 or both of these tools.
>
> Let me know your experience (good or bad) with each of these tools.
>
> If there is other software we should look at please let me know this
> as well.
 

Hi.

I've used both products quite a lot.

If you just want to model the data (and are not interested in modelling functions, or generating Develope 2000 code), then ERwin is much
easier to use and does everything you need !! You also won't get involved in the 'system admin mess' underlying Designer 2000, which can be a real pain.

My only proviso is - if you want a real industrial strength open repository, then ERwin is not the way to go, as it stores the meta-data in its own peculiar
format.

Hope this helps.

J. Pitt
jmp_at_bom.gov.au Received on Thu Apr 03 1997 - 00:00:00 CEST