RE: Entity Relationship diagrams Qdesigner using same engine as P

its using the same engine as powerdesigner. whats the gimmick behind this.

Story

1. Hack Bill Gates & Larry Ellisons bank accounts.
2. Buy Oracle DB source licence from Oracle.
3. Write a Search and Replace globally (s/Oracle/FreeOracle/g)
4. Market FreeOracle

Just Daydreaming...

-Mandar
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Leith [mailto:mark_at_cool-tools.co.uk]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2001 10:26 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Subject: RE: Entity Relationship diagrams
>
>
> Here's another to add to the list... and guess what - GASP - it's from
> Quest!! Another one to add to their growing "Supermarket
> Shopping List"! I'm
> getting the scent of CA/Platinum here..
>
> --------------
> Quest Software Announces Release of QDesigner(tm) to Round-Out
> Comprehensive
> Development Suite of Products
> PR News
> April 16 2001 04:52AM PT
>
>
> QDesigner Provides Efficient Database Analysis, Design and
> Construction
>
> IRVINE, Calif., April 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Quest Software, Inc. (Nasdaq:
> QSFT), a leading provider of application management solutions, today
> announced the release of QDesigner(tm), an innovative database
> design tool that
> enables users to efficiently manage the process of
> application design from
> data and object modeling to code generation, resulting in an
> enormous time
> savings for the designers.
>
> QDesigner accelerates database design and construction
> processes through the
> use of advanced Entity/Relationship (ER) modeling techniques
> that include
> the ability to "draw" database models, displaying an actual
> diagram of the
> design before it is applied. QDesigner also allows designers,
> developers and
> DBAs to visualize database components, so they can
> collaborate and share
> ideas on how the database should be structured while it is
> being designed.
>
> "Recently, customers have been asking for more functional
> database design
> solutions," said Marshall Senk, vice president of marketing for Quest
> Software. "With QDesigner, we are ready to meet that demand.
> We believe the
> technology that QDesigner provides will allow IT resources to be more
> efficiently deployed in the database design function. It not
> only rounds-out
> Quest's development suite of products, but also provides users with an
> advanced design and modeling tool."
>
> QDesigner automates the process of creating and changing the
> application
> components and underlying database structures and is
> especially useful in
> environments where applications are utilized by many business
> units and
> developed and supported by different portions of the IT organization.
>
> "I've been a database administrator and data architect for
> ten years and
> have used other design tools, but QDesigner is the first ER
> tool I've found
> that provides such comprehensive design and analysis
> capabilities," said
> Donna Maser, database administrator for the Celltech Group,
> one of Europe's
> largest biopharmaceutical companies(1). "QDesigner delivers
> all the positive
> features of its competitors and more. It is the first product
> of its kind
> that can provide me with usable code directly from the model
> I lay out."
>
> QDesigner joins Quest Software's solutions for SQL
> developers, SQL Navigator
> and TOAD, which have been designed to enhance the
> productivity of users and
> their applications by providing tools for designing,
> developing, testing and
> impact analysis. QDesigner is now generally available with
> pricing starting
> at $995 per server.
>
> --------
>
> More reasonable than ERWin as well I should think..
>
> Regards
>
> Mark
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> stephane
> Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2001 02:41
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
>
>
> I do not know of any good modeling tool for free, they
> all charge $$$.
>
> I found it a bit strange that you have all the
> physical layout done then want to do an entity-
> relationship diagram after...
>
> --- Ranganath K <ranganathk_at_subexgroup.com> a écrit :
> > Dear DBA Gurus,
> >
> > I have around 30 tables for which the
> > columns, datatypes, size of
> > each datatype, referential integrity constraints is
> > decided. I need to draw
> > E-R diagram linking each table with one or many
> > tables. I am looking for a
> > tool which will draw the diagram for me if I provide
> > the column names, its
> > datatypes, referential integrity constraints etc.
> > Is there any free tool
> > which will do this for me? If not, how do I do
> > this? Any URLs or links or
> > documents will be very much helpful. Any help in
> > this regard will be very
> > much appreciated.
> >
> > TIA and Regards,
> >
> > Ranganath
> >
> >
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