Re: tool drawing ora9 database relation schema???
From: Frank van Bortel <fvanbortel_at_netscape.net>
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 19:40:34 +0100
Message-ID: <cvvoeo$qq2$1_at_news3.zwoll1.ov.home.nl>
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> From the JDeveloper 10g (9.0.5.1) OBE entitled "Designing, Modeling and
> Generating Database Tables":
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> Step 3 - Import Tables from a Database
> Connection
>
> Now that you have a blank database diagram, you can directly import tables
> from the database connection by dragging them onto the diagram. Importing
> the tables creates the offline table definitions which you will work with
> before creating the DDL to create new tables in a database.
>
> 1. To import tables from the connection you have to the database, click the
> Connections tab so that the Connections Navigator is visible, or choose
> View | Connection Navigator. Expand the Database, and HR nodes to see all
> the database elements available through this connection.
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> I acknowledge the above technique may not fit within the requirements or
> definition of 'Reverse Engineering'.
>
> FWIW: I believe Designer is the better tool for this. IMO, JDeveloper is
> trying to become a JOAT tool, which has it's uses. (But for close combat
> a Bayonet may be better than a Swiss Army knife.)
>
> /FGB
OK - kewl :) did not know that will have to update, then.
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 19:40:34 +0100
Message-ID: <cvvoeo$qq2$1_at_news3.zwoll1.ov.home.nl>
GreyBeard wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 16:11:07 +0100, Frank van Bortel wrote:
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>>GreyBeard wrote: >>[snip] >> >>>Also: UML diagrams can also be achieved in JDeveloper (which is also >>>part of the Developer Suite bundle) >> >>Can JDeveloper reverse engineer, like Designer can? >>Because that was the OP's request.
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> From the JDeveloper 10g (9.0.5.1) OBE entitled "Designing, Modeling and
> Generating Database Tables":
>
> ---------------
> Step 3 - Import Tables from a Database
> Connection
>
> Now that you have a blank database diagram, you can directly import tables
> from the database connection by dragging them onto the diagram. Importing
> the tables creates the offline table definitions which you will work with
> before creating the DDL to create new tables in a database.
>
> 1. To import tables from the connection you have to the database, click the
> Connections tab so that the Connections Navigator is visible, or choose
> View | Connection Navigator. Expand the Database, and HR nodes to see all
> the database elements available through this connection.
> ---------------
>
> I acknowledge the above technique may not fit within the requirements or
> definition of 'Reverse Engineering'.
>
> FWIW: I believe Designer is the better tool for this. IMO, JDeveloper is
> trying to become a JOAT tool, which has it's uses. (But for close combat
> a Bayonet may be better than a Swiss Army knife.)
>
> /FGB
OK - kewl :) did not know that will have to update, then.
[Quoted] Makes one wonder why the Swiss army gets those knives... "preseeeeent... knive!" <g>
-- Regards, Frank van BortelReceived on Mon Feb 28 2005 - 19:40:34 CET