ER Modeling

From: Patrick Lanphier <planphier_at_psu.edu>
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 20:47:49 -0700
Message-ID: <372927E5.D4F6BDF5_at_psu.edu>


I am looking for an ER tool that will provide me with the below functionality? Some possibilities are
System Architect, ERwin, ERstudio, Powerdesigner, Designer 2000 and Sterling products.

  1. Check out an individual objects in the model
  2. Bi-Direction Version Control (Database -> Model and Model -> Database)
  3. Table maintenance functionality that will preserve data and alter a table
  4. Revision/Version History
  5. Multiple User Access
  6. Allow all constraint restrictions (child delete, insert, update; parent delete, insert, update)
  7. A good layout manager and printing capabilities
  8. HTML publishing of the model
  9. Test Data Generation
  10. Table: physical info manipulation (maxextents, minextents, buffer pool, etc.)
  11. Stable
  12. With versioning the ability to rollback changes to the database

Patrick Lanphier
Advanced Informational Technologies
The Pennsylvania State University Received on Fri Apr 30 1999 - 05:47:49 CEST

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