Why bother with Logical data model?

I'm working on a project where the logical data model stage slows the process down. I'm not talking about thinking time, that is always there as part of the process. I suppose the tool doesn't help. Oracle Designer is just awful and you spend an awful lot of time changing the tables and indexes generated by the logical model, where it would have been easier to go straight to table design in the first place.

Now, I know part of the problem here is the tool I'm using.

Has anybody had similar experiences or have any comments Received on Wed Aug 09 2006 - 03:47:41 CDT