Re: Who Uses Designer? What do you think?

[Quoted] Designer can do a lot and it takes a long time to learn. One thing it cannot do, however, is reverse engineer a database up past the logical entity/relationship level. So if you are going to use all of Designer's features you have to be disciplined enough to make all your changes in Designer, at as high a level as appropriate, then forward engineer the changes down to your database.
On the other hand you can use it as a simple CASE tool very quickly and in my opinion it's more flexible and fully featured than ERwin. Because Designer is apparently developed by a separate team than Oracle there are some quirks and Designer may not accommodate the very latest Oracle features.

Van

"sdenney" <sdenney_at_healthetech.com> wrote in message news:8F5B492029A45D4E.4D9C78670AF3FF67.7BDBF63AA79CDC1D_at_lp.airnews.net...
> Oracle's sales literature can be rather optomistc. I was just curious
 which
> piecess of designer you might use on an ongoing basis in real life. My
> questions are:
>
> Does anybody maintain schemas definitions and modules in designer? What
 are
> your thoughts on the good pieces? What do you refuse to maintain in
> designer because it doesn't work.
>
> Any input that anyone has would be appreciated. Any Oracle consultants?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Sean
>
>
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