Re: Entity Relationship Diagrams - Conceptual - Logical

Thanks guys,

I would have thought that people would share database contructs like the ER models etc, because they could be improved uppon and criticised.
Anyway, I think I will have to turn to books. (Why do they have them in books and someone on the net ... very strange considering)

'medical database'

Ill let you know how my project went it went

"Scot A. Becker" <scotb_at_inconcept.com> wrote:

>"Peter Crooke" <pscrooke_at_bigpond.com> wrote in message
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>> If you wan to be pointed at a good CASE product I can recommend
 Infomodeller
>> from Visio ( or is it now Microsoft??)
 

>InfoModeler's, Inc. was aquired by Visio in 1998. Visio changed the product
>name (to VisioModeler) and bundled it (as a seperate application) with Visio
>Enterprise 5.0. Visio released Visio Enterprise 2000 this year, which
>incorporated part of the functionality supported by VisioModeler directly
>into the Visio product. A service relase is due out soon which will
>incorporate the rest of the functionality. And yes, Visio has been
>(recently) aquired by Microsoft; in fact, the service release now carries
>the M$ banner on the splash screen.
 

>While Visio Enterprise is not free ($1,000, I think), you get a lot
>(roundtrip logical modeling for all major vendors, round trip UML modeling
>for Visual Studio products, conceptual to logical mapping, etc.) for your
>money. And it is still cheaper than the other mainstream data modeling CASE
>tools, let alone how much UML tools cost.
 

>HTH,
>Scot.
>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>Scot A. Becker
 

>Principal Consultant, InConcept, Inc.
> http://www.inconcept.com
 

>Editor, The Journal of Conceptual Modeling
> http://www.inconcept.com/JCM

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