Re: Designer/2000 installation question

aka_at_ulysses.att.com (Atul Ashar) writes:

>Hi Helge,
 

>Designer/2000 is great for doing this thing. You can reverse engineer almost
>everything from Oracle database to Designer repository and create graphical
>representation (diagrams) of your system. I did same thing and I am very happy
>with reverse engineering feature.
 

>In RON (i.e. Repository Object Navigator), create your application, assign
>database to it and run reverse engineer. This will ask you for Oracle user name.
>After that it will display which objects types you want to reverse engineer. You
>can select all the object types and it will generate list of all objects present
>in database for that user. You can select all of these objects. With this, you can
>reverse engineer data structure, constraints, relations, procedures, packages,
>triggers, etc.
 

>From these reverse engineered objects, you can create physical models for your
>database application in both report as well as graphical form.
 

>You can also create logical model from this physical model by using retrofit
>feature. This model also has different set of diagrams.
 

>An addition to this, you can also make changes in your model and repository can
>update your database structure according to changes you make in designer.
>

Yes,
these are the things I want to do !

n the first step I want to reverse engineer the database objects (tables, views, constraints, sequences, relations, etc.) of an existing application.

But the problems are:
1. The online help talks about "Utilities -> Reverse Engineer Database"

   and I only found "Utilities -> Reverse Engineer DDL". I think these means    the same, isn't it ?
2. When I want to start "Utilities -> Reverse Engineer DDL" the only message

   is "There are no databases in this application system with create status

• 'Y'. You will need at least one such databases to run this utility."

What's wrong ??

Thanks in advance,
Helge

Helge Petersen                           
Draeger Synematic GmbH                   D-23558 Luebeck, Germany
Tel. 0451/882-4044   Fax -3031           Email petersen_at_dwhl.de
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