Re: ERwin vs. Visio

Visio is not just a CAD tool, it has had modelling capabilities for several years now, including reverse engineering and DDL creation. It's also now one of the few tools that supports object role modelling (ORM) for conceptual design.

"Luis Aguayo" <laguayo_at_vtr.net> wrote in message news:a9lgro$ddk$1_at_news.nivel5.cl...
> Erwin it's a modeling tool, Visio it's only a CAD ( graphical, design)
 tool,
> instead of erwin i would recomend dataarchitect, by Sybase, as or better
> than erwin you could create a conecptual model, then migrate to phisical
> model and the create the scripts to create the Database, tables, indexes,
> constraints.
>
> If you don't want real assistance and your problem it's the good graphic,
> Visio it's great but if you want a complete tool to design, create and
> manage databases, you need Erwin or dataarchitect, even you could "read"
 the
> actual structure ( reverse engeenering) of a database and create a
 phisical
> model, great!
>
> Good luck from Santiago, Chile
> Luis Aguayo
>
>
>
> "Robert D. Perry" <rdperry_at_gowebway.com> escribió en el mensaje
> news:e4fbf364.0204171834.794ea613_at_posting.google.com...
> > Besides the price, can anyone give me the pro's and con's of these
> > data modelling tools. Cost is strong determining factor for us but I
> > would like for clearly understand the merits of both before making a
> > possible short sighted decision. If there any articles or web sights
> > you can recommend, I would appreciate it. The VISIO did not provide
> > enough information for me.
>
>
Received on Thu Apr 18 2002 - 08:33:05 CEST