From oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org Fri Oct 14 13:56:02 2005 Return-Path: Received: from air891.startdedicated.com (root@localhost) by orafaq.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j9EIu1HR017785 for ; Fri, 14 Oct 2005 13:56:02 -0500 X-ClientAddr: 206.53.239.180 Received: from turing.freelists.org (freelists-180.iquest.net [206.53.239.180]) by air891.startdedicated.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j9EItsvX017725 for ; Fri, 14 Oct 2005 13:55:56 -0500 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id 3C4D01FFBC1; Fri, 14 Oct 2005 12:30:39 -0500 (EST) Received: from turing.freelists.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (turing [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 04450-09; Fri, 14 Oct 2005 12:30:39 -0500 (EST) Received: from turing (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id 8349D1FED37; Fri, 14 Oct 2005 12:30:38 -0500 (EST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=ARh/oCQd9F7YsTK58VlnpTc73E6S1huaVgoclk9JjrlkXOf8vqbQmCGUX4Zp1AbmBEAPV2t1tKs/ELrr8YgzL5iONiR9tew1zlMVLRKcwrrUb/3b2JuVNPT5cRMiNRrsfIVg+4UYk/6t9X++aIa9P0PubBTsPlK+4Fa95p4BWC4= Message-ID: Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 13:23:08 -0400 From: Thomas Day To: Oracle-L Subject: Re: Oracle designer vs ERwin In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_15567_8704956.1129310588994" References: X-archive-position: 27008 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org Errors-To: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org X-original-sender: tomday2@gmail.com Precedence: normal Reply-To: tomday2@gmail.com X-list: oracle-l X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p9 (Debian) at avenirtech.net X-mailscan-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-mailscan-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-From: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on air891.startdedicated.com X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,HTML_MESSAGE autolearn=ham version=2.63 ------=_Part_15567_8704956.1129310588994 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline IMHO Erwin is much easier to use. However, it doesn't support the logical level as well as Designer and it doesn't support the application level at all. Bu= t on the physical level there it's robust and much easier to use than Designer. They're really different animals. Designer is an Information Engineering workbench (or it likes to think that it is) while Erwin is ment for supporting the physical implementation of an already designed database. Of course, I haven't used Erwin in the last 3 years so later editions may change the feature set. Your milage may vary. ------=_Part_15567_8704956.1129310588994 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline

IMHO
 
Erwin is much easier to use.  However, it doesn't support the log= ical level as well as Designer and it doesn't support the application level= at all.  But on the physical level there it's robust and much easier = to use than Designer.
 
They're really different animals.  Designer is an Information Eng= ineering workbench (or it likes to think that it is) while Erwin is ment fo= r supporting the physical implementation of an already designed database.
 
Of course, I haven't used Erwin in the last 3 years so later editions = may change the feature set.
 
Your milage may vary.
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