[dundee] E-R modelling tool?

Rob Sharp dundee at lists.lug.org.uk
Tue Sep 2 12:14:00 2003


On Tue, 2 Sep 2003 10:39:39 +0100, "Jonathan Riddell" <jr@jriddell.org>
said:
> On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 09:22:06AM +0000, Rob Sharp wrote:
> 
> > Just on the offchance, has anyone used any entity-relationship modelling
> > tools open-source wise? I'm getting my linux dev box next week at work,
> > and am fed up with visio already. Riddell - I'm gonna give Umbrello a go
> > soon for my UML stuff... I'll give u some feedback once I'm up and
> > running!
> 
> Dia is a general diagramming tool that does E-R diagrams.
> 
> What's wrong with Visio?
Well nothing really, but its very jack-of-all-trades. I've found an E-R
plugin which makes things a little easier. Maybe I'll have to do it
myself, but an E-R tool that could generate SQL to create your tables
would be lovely!

> I'd like Umbrello to have E-R diagrams but it's not part of UML so
> it's not a priority.  Let me know what you think of Umbrello.
Will do.

> Jonathan Riddell
> 
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