RE: Visio for ERD's ?

I use Visio Pro 2000 to reverse engineer schemas of existing databases into diagrams, it's useful for documentation purposes, and for exploring an unfamiliar schema, for example, you can click on a table, see all the relationships, click on a relationship and see the child tables, that sort of thing.

The one major problem is that it can't forward-engineer changes you make into the diagram into SQL statements, which is odd because I would have thought this would be much easier to do than reverse engineering, it would be a simple feature to add. But if you want that, you'll probably have to buy a real CASE tool.

Cheers,

g

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I would like to know if anyone is using Visio to re-engineer ERD's from an
Oracle DB? Any problems, gotchas or recommendations are welcome

I have Visio Prof. 5c and will be using Oracle DB 8.1.7.

Thanks,
Ken Janusz, CPIM
Database Conversion Lead
Sufficient Systems, Inc.

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