Re: Oracle Designer VS ERWin --- Comments

andybush2003_at_yahoo.com said...
> We are trying to pick a product for data modelling. There are 3 main
> products in review.
>
> Rational Rose
> ERWin
> Oracle Designer
>
> Could anyone please comment on any advantages of one vs another.
> I know that ERWin is one of the big ones out there and Data Modelling
> and Erwin seem to get mentioned in same sentence more than any other
> tool, but I would still like to see what folks have to say if they
> have used another tool also.
>
>
>
> Thanks
>
WARNING! What I say might be outdated. I used Oracle Designer and ERWin a long time ago (in the fast-changing IT world, that equates to more than two years ago). One of the things I liked about ERWin was that it recognized that laser printers print on sheets of paper; Oracle Designer had no concept of pages ... and figured I was printing on huge plotter sized paper. Just a small thing, but I got tired of having to tape all the pages together every time I printed from Designer. ERWin let me group entities by categories on separate pages.

Didn't get to use either very often. With their prices, my company (at that time) installed one copy of each on two "community" PCs and we had to sign up to use these popular resources. So none of us ever used them enuf to become "experts." Where I am now, we use Microsoft Visio ... but for serious work, I wouldn't recommend it (pretty pictures, though).

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/Karsten
DBA > retired > DBA