Re: [pgsql-general] DB GUI Design tool

From: Jan Pruner <jan(at)pruner(dot)cz>
To: jc(at)mega-bucks(dot)co(dot)jp
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [pgsql-general] DB GUI Design tool
Date: 2002-07-10 08:56:17
Message-ID: 200207101056.17342.jan@pruner.cz
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Try
http://www.casestudio.com/

Db Diagram looks pretty good.

J/

On Wednesday 10 July 2002 10:30, you wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, Christoph Dalitz wrote:
> > > From: Jean-Christian Imbeault <jc(at)mega-bucks(dot)co(dot)jp>
> > >
> > > Can anyone recommend a free GUI DB design tool for Windows I could use
> > > to model my database design? (something similar to the design tool in
> > > MS access).
> >
> > DataArchitect by TheKompany
> > (http://www.thekompany.com/products/dataarchitect/) seems to be a
> > powerful tool.
>
> I just played with it, and I can't say I'm very impressed. When I
> connected it to a postgres database and asked it to generate a document
> from that schema, it generated ten empty table definitions. And when
> creating tables, there seems no easy and automatic way to have it draw a
> line indicating that a foreign key in one table references a primary key
> in another, and make this line stick no matter where you move the table
> in the diagram. Also, I couldn't figure out how to delete items from the
> diagram.
>
> Not to mention that creating table definitions in it is a lot more
> work than just typing SQL into a text file.
>
> So after about half an hour of playing, I abandoned it. Unfortunately,
> I still have a need for some sort of graphical tool so I can make
> pretty pictures for clients, but I've got a good budget for it, so I'd
> be interested in any other recommendations. But I found this one hard
> enough to use that in the end my "tool" may be paying a drone to keep a
> Visio diagram up-to-date based on changes to my text files.
>
> cjs

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