Sybase's Powerdesigner is a very popular modeling tool. It works well with
Oracle too.
http://www.sybase.com/products/designtools/
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Terry Dykstra
Canadian Forest Oil Ltd.
"Christopher" <blueberryjam_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:8pp3o3$e5m_at_dispatch.concentric.net...
> I went though this same process about a year ago. We went with
Embarcadero
> because of its price and ease of use. Designer is a full lifecycle tool
and
> is a bit
> complex when you just want to generate ER diagrams and reverse engineer
> existing schemas. If I were still consulting I would go with Designer,
but
> as a DBA in a fast paced Internet environment I picked ER/Studio.
>
> As for ERwin. I had trouble with it on a project and have never looked
> back. It died every time I tried to reverse engineer a schema with over
200
> objects in it. It is still the defacto standard in ER tools, though. If
> you are going to be sharing your design with many different organizations,
> go with ERwin. Everyone has it.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Christopher
>
>
> <vdolt_at_my-deja.com> wrote in message news:8popad$idg$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com...
> > I am trying to buy data modeling and database design tool.
> > Has anyone has any suggestions to what is better tool from these 3 to
> > use? I've got a quote from Embarcadero - 3 grand for Oracle suite (DB
> > Artisan, Rapid SQL and ER studio) I don't really neeed all of them but
> > they won't sell it separately. How is Oracle designer? Is there a way
> > to reverse engineer existing models?
> >
> > P.S. We have only Oracle databases, so cross-platform capabilities are
> > really irrelevant.
> >
> >
> > Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> > Before you buy.
>
>
Received on Thu Sep 14 2000 - 17:38:47 CDT
