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On the subject of databases, a few of you may be interested in this....<br><br>http://www.helpmysql.org/en/theissue/customerspaythebill<br><br>PS:Colin, I Won't be at Dover meet, maybe Maidstone, & I have a projector, if ever it's needed for presentations<br><br>Aitch<br>----------------------------------------------<br><br>> From: macgyver@thedumbterminal.co.uk<br>> To: kent@mailman.lug.org.uk<br>> Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 09:45:57 +0000<br>> Subject: Re: [Klug-general] database diagraming<br>> <br>> On Friday 29 Jan 2010, Mike Evans wrote:<br>> > There are some plugins for eclipse, which I've not tried.<br>> ><br>> > Avoid anything by Rational Software, even though now owned by IBM my<br>> > experience is that they are worse than stuff that I was using 20 years ago.<br>> ><br>> > Although I haven't yet any experience I would have thought that the<br>> > obvious candidate would be MySQL Workbench - it's GPL and it should work<br>> > with everyone's (except Julia's) favourite database :)<br>> ><br>> > It supposedly allows forward and reverse engineering between schema and<br>> > database. In my personal experience that has always been of limited<br>> > value (ie for prototyping and early development only) but that was<br>> > mostly because DBAs responsible for the sort of large organisation<br>> > databases I've worked with are quite keen to eyeball the DDL and ask<br>> > searching questions about things like cardinality of tables and proposed<br>> > indices. This is, of course, their job as they get to figure it out<br>> > when performance is crap and it helps if they have some human readable<br>> > stuff to look at as a starter.<br>> ><br>> > Mike<br>> ><br>> > On 29/01/10 13:57, Dan Attwood wrote:<br>> > > Does anyone know of some OSS for creating database diagrams. IE hook it<br>> > > up to a MS sql database and spit out a nice zoomable interactive type<br>> > > map showing the tables and their links?<br>> > ><br>> > > I can do this with Visio but it's a bit rubbish and wondered if any one<br>> > > knew of something better<br>> > ><br>> > > Dan<br>> > ><br>> > ><br>> > ><br>> > > _______________________________________________<br>> > > Kent mailing list<br>> > > Kent@mailman.lug.org.uk<br>> > > https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/kent<br>> ><br>> > _______________________________________________<br>> > Kent mailing list<br>> > Kent@mailman.lug.org.uk<br>> > https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/kent<br>> <br>> I've used a postgresql one for eclipse it worked ok, but i didn't try a lot of <br>> the features.<br>> <br>> <br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Kent mailing list<br>> Kent@mailman.lug.org.uk<br>> https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/kent<br> <br /><hr />Not got a Hotmail account? <a href='http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/197222280/direct/01/' target='_new'>Sign-up now - Free</a></body>
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