[lug] Database design tools?

[Bill Wimsatt]

Or if you have a copy of Visio, it does an ok job as well. I forget if
it generates the SQL DDL or not, though.

Regards,
Bill Wimsatt

 


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[mailto:lug-bounces at lug.boulder.co.us] On Behalf Of Michael Wegener
Sent: Monday, December 08, 2003 4:08 PM
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Subject: RE: [lug] Database design tools?


Oh, so you're using OR mapping -- that's a different ball game. Is the
issue that the PHB needs a pretty picture? Why not use TogetherJ or
something like it for an object diagram where you can see all the
dependencies? Together whatever-its-called-now has a great fundamental
design in which everything is derived from the java code. There's a free
version too, which does the plain object diagrams

--M

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[mailto:lug-bounces at lug.boulder.co.us]On Behalf Of Bear Giles
Sent: Monday, December 08, 2003 4:03 PM
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Subject: Re: [lug] Database design tools?


Michael Wegener wrote:
> At the risk of provoking the wrath of this list, I have often used M$
Access
> GUI design to hack tables and dependencies, then exported to text to 
> make real SQL DDL.

That's why I tried to downplay this issue a bit - our primary document
is and will remain the java source.  We really don't care how our object
persistence tool maps objects to the underlying datastore as long as it
does the job.

Fortunately hibernate is pretty intuitive with how it does the mapping
and xdoclet allows us to specify sqlish names so the standard database
tools will still make sense... but everything has to be driven by the
Java source.

Bear

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