Re: From database to graphical structure schema

Hi !

  Yes at least I know one of them:
  ERWIN from Platinum

  As far as I know Oracle also offers such a tool, take a look into oracle technet & metalink
 cheers
 Bahram

"Tim Blommerde" <T.Blommerde_at_its.tudelft.nl> wrote in message news:88guhc$hrh$1_at_news1.xs4all.nl...
> Dear Oracle users and administrators,
>
> Since a few weeks I've been assigned as Oracle administrator at the small
> software company I work for. This because our former Oracle guru
suddenly,
> after 10 years, decided to finally complete his computer science degree.
I
> was assigned because I used to do all the coding that involved SQL and
query
> writing. So now I'm faced with a rather difficult and complicated task, I
> doubt I will master in a few weeks.
>
> One of the first things I'd like to do now, besides grabbing a couple of
> good Oracle books and starting skimming through them, is making a good,
> graphical map of the currently used databases. Our former dba did not
> really like documentation and used to have everything in his head. But
> because I can't detach and use his head without killing the man, I'd like
to
> make good, preferably graphical, documentation on the used tables, their
> primary keys, relations, constraints etc. So here comes my question. Are
> there any tools that make it easier to do such a thing, without having to
> use Star Office for creating nice boxes, arrows, information and other
> things. Is there maybe a tool which can create a database layout from
just
> connecting the tool to the database?
>
> Hopefully you can help me, and if not, atleast thanks for reading.
>
> Yours sincerely,
> T.Blommerde
>
>
Received on Fri Feb 18 2000 - 22:57:16 CET