Re: Data Modeling Tools

Alex,

You can try our tool. (dezign for databases). Why better? It's easier to use than the other tools mentioned. The big plus is that the price for this product is $97. A fraction of comparable tools.

Some features:
- Automatic foreign key migration.

• Automatic resolution of many-to-many relationships.
• Full cardinality and connectivity support for Foreign Key placement
• Dependency through "weak" entitiy-type.
• Support for domains (user defined types). Domains can be generated if target database supports domains. Otherwise domains will be converted to 'normal' types with checkconstraints.
• Generate constraints as table-constraints, column-constraints or use the

alter table-statement.
- Automatic DROP TABLE scripts for dropping the tables from the database.

• Directly generate dBase (.dbf -files) or Paradox-tables (.db -files).
• Directly generate MS Access module for database-creation.
• Versioncontrol for your Entity Relationship Diagram (You can always reopen a previous version of your project).
• Powerfull report generator. Generate html-reports.
• Template driven schema-creation.
• Open type-mapping (Change the type-mapping to the target database to your needs).
• Multiple displaymodes available in the Entity Relationship Diagram (ERD)

editor.

An evaluation version can be downloaded. http://www.heraut.demon.nl/dezign/dezign.html

Best regards,
Rick Van Dijk
"DeZign for databases"
http://www.heraut.demon.nl/dezign/dezign.html database design tool.
Visualize and create your database (ER-Modeling). Oracle, dBase, Paradox, Interbase, Access,....

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Alex Yevzelman schreef:

[Quoted] [Quoted] > We are trying to choose between different data modeling tools such as
[Quoted] > ERWin, ER/Studio, Silverrun, etc. to create and maintain databases for
> Oracle 8i.
> Does anyone like one tool better than the other and why?
>
> Thanks.
> Alex.