Re: Who Uses Designer? What do you think?

Regrettably your first assertion is not true. Designer can reverse engineer a database, albeit you need to do it in two steps.

Regards,

Sybrand Bakker, Oracle DBA

"Van Messner" <vmessner_at_bestweb.net> wrote in message news:VrSw6.121$Uu6.16942_at_monger.newsread.com...
> 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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