Have you tried Druid (http://druid.sourceforge.net/index.html) ? It does anything a good ERD designer do and it's free... BTJ On 5 Jun 2006 16:54:56 -0700 dananrg@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > 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 > > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend
