Re: Oracle Database Designer (ODD)?

Jeff Crilly N6ZFX wrote:
>
> I'm playing around a little with Oracle Database Designer...
> this is a free tool that oracle has provided on their web page.
>
> Its a 16bit win3.1 app, but it seems to run fine on win95.
>
> What it does: You graphically layout your tables, datatypes
> within the tables, displaynames, and table relationships.... and
> ODD generates the SQL DDL code to build said tables. It will also
> reverse engineer tables from SQL DDL code. (I'm not sure if
> will do this from _any_ DDL.. or just the DDL that it generated.)
>
> I have some pretty simple tables, so it might just
> work fine for me.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas of the limitations of this tool?
> (I couldn't find any in the docs.)

  It is just like a subset of Designer 2000. As a result, some of the functions such as forms generator and documentations are not available.

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