Re: Oracle Designer, a powerful... time-waster

On 14 Apr 2003 01:22:47 -0700, miotromailcarlos_at_netscape.net (Carlos) wrote:

>Can anybody explain why a third party tool like Sybase PowerDesigner
>works a thousand times better with an Oracle database than the Oracle
>tool (Oracle Designer) itself?
>I lost the count of the hours I've lost due to different errors that
>the infamous Oracle Designer raises. From insolit error messages to
>'cannot read memory' Windows errors. Continously failing in the
>reverse engineering of an Oracle database, inserting unwritable
>characters in the PL/SQL definitions of triggers and procedures,
>creating 16 character name codes for the objects... that are not
>unique!! Simply a nightmare.
>I decided to work with a PowerDesigner Beta(!) version and everything
>works just fine!! And much quicker too!
>Maybe the Oracle SGRDB is better than Sybase's, but in the design
>tools field, Sybase is a lightyear distance ahead.

Usually rants like the above ones are being caused by not reading the installation instructions and resolving the resulting problems by hacking.
I have worked with both, and I don't see what you are pointing at. As far as I am concerned using Powerdesigner is a waste of time.

Oracle Designer might not work for you. It works for countless others. I've worked with an application developed using Powerdesigner. As Powerdesigner in that version didn't have any inconsistencies checks, the whole app was a big piece of crap. In fact it was such a nightmare we got a new release every working day.

Sybrand Bakker, Senior Oracle DBA

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