tedia2sql for DIA seems pretty strange, in that it seems to require you to use UML diagrams, rather than ER Diagrams, to forward engineer a database - e.g. output DDL statements. Am I misreading what tedia2sql does, or is does one have to use repurpose UML diagrams to get DDL statements created? I was a little disappointed with the ER Diagram functions of DIA. Looks like you can only add a few properties at most given the way it is structured - having circles radiating out from the Entity. There's only so much screen space... then there's no way to specify a SQL ANSI data type from what I recall. Is there a commercial tool that's less than $200 which kicks the *ss of any of these open source solutions? I'd rather use something free, but not if it doesn't do what I want it to do easily. I like the Open Office apps like Writer and Calc. Calc in particular does everything Excel does - at least everything I've ever used Excel for. Seems like the open source data modeling tools aren't feature-rich quite yet. Dana
