Re: Modeling-Designer 200, Erwin, Popkin, Bachman, which??

From: Alan Slay <theslays_at_mindspring.com>
Date: 1998/01/16
Message-ID: <34bed43d.1731298_at_news.mindspring.com>#1/1


The modeling tool I currently use is Power-Designor (a.k.a S-Designor) and I find that it is pretty good for our small system (250 tables). I built our model from the ground up and it serves our purpose as a maintenance tool for database updates now that we are up and running.

Peter Cumming <pacumming_at_mindspring.com> wrote:

>Modeling-Designer 200, Erwin, Popkin, Bachman, which??
>We saw a very impressive demo of Oracle Designer 2000 today and was
>quite impressed.
>We also have Popkin SA Architect and Erwin in house.
>
>While it seems that there are tons of features in Designer 2000 which
>would take some training, its incorporation of or ability to create
>forms, reports and potential web interface seemed very impressive. I
>think it had a web interface. I might be confusing it with Developer
>2000 which they presented next.
>
>If anyone could elaborate on what the best tool for modeling, and
>managing a databse, ability to create forms, change values in the
>database, generate SQL, reverse engineer like Designer 2000 had, etc.. I
>would appreciate it.
>
>Kind of looking for an A versus B article. May need to call gartner
>group or do some more searching on the web, perhaps one of the PC rags
>may have something.
>
>Thanks for any insight, and an email reply
>Peter
>pacumming_at_mindpsring.com
Received on Fri Jan 16 1998 - 00:00:00 CET

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