Conceptual modeling like in the book

Hi list!

I've just finished reading the nice book: "Data Modeling and Relational Database Design Volume 1 - Student Guide", by Jan Speelpenning, Patrice Daux and Jeff Gallus, published by Oracle University. I really like the way they do their drawings for their conceptual models (see below for the features of Oracle's book's conceptual models). In fact, it's a notation that could apply to any RDBMS and that'S what I'd like to do. But I searched, and searched, and searched but found no software doing exactly it. I found many variations of it but not the plain and simple one we can find in that book.

Is there anybody of you that found drawing softwares actually able to to do this specific kind of notation? I've looked at Visio, SmartDraw, DBDesigner, Visible Analyst, ERWin, Database Design Studio (DDS), dbViz, XCase with no success. None of 'em seems to have a function for that specific purpose.

Any help would be greatly apreciated.

Thank you!!

mACHnIFE

Nice features of the models in the book: Crowsfoot (or tripod) illustrating the many end of a relationship;
-The part of a relashionship that is mandatory drawn as a solid line;
-The part that is optional drawn as a dotted line;
-The verb (ie: "has/held by", "split into/part of", etc) on the each
of the relationships;
-Diamond across a relationship line to represent nontransferability;
-Subtype, represented as an entity within the boundary of another
entity;
-Unique identifier, represented as # in front of an attribute or as a
bar across a relationship line;
-Arcs across two or more relationship lines indicating that any
instance of an entity can have only one valid relationship of the relationships in the arc at any one time.
-Attributes: * for Mandatory; o for optional;(# for unique identifyer)
Received on Thu Nov 13 2003 - 21:41:34 CET