Reverse Engineering in Oracle Database

hi all

we´re planning to make a full copy of a smallworld gis database in an oracle spatial rdbms. due to nearly no experience with oracle itself, my question are:

1. what oportunities do i have to get the data model from the smallworld database to the oracle db?
2. in which way are datamodels in oracle spatial defined? is this made by uml, a special case tool, etc.?
3. is a "reverse engineering" function implemented in oracle to read out the datamodel of an external database (which for example is connected via odbc)?
4. concerning oracle spatial: does the database support topological manifolds or themes?

Thanks a lot in advance

Jan Kiefer Received on Tue Dec 18 2001 - 10:02:52 CST