Re: Best open source tool for database design / ERDs?

Have you tried Druid (http://druid.sourceforge.net/index.html) ?

It does anything a good ERD designer do and it's free...

BTJ

On 5 Jun 2006 16:54:56 -0700
dananrg(at)yahoo(dot)com wrote:

> tedia2sql for DIA seems pretty strange, in that it seems to require you
> to use UML diagrams, rather than ER Diagrams, to forward engineer a
> database - e.g. output DDL statements.
>
> Am I misreading what tedia2sql does, or is does one have to use
> repurpose UML diagrams to get DDL statements created?
>
> I was a little disappointed with the ER Diagram functions of DIA. Looks
> like you can only add a few properties at most given the way it is
> structured - having circles radiating out from the Entity. There's only
> so much screen space... then there's no way to specify a SQL ANSI data
> type from what I recall.
>
> Is there a commercial tool that's less than $200 which kicks the *ss of
> any of these open source solutions? I'd rather use something free, but
> not if it doesn't do what I want it to do easily.
>
> I like the Open Office apps like Writer and Calc. Calc in particular
> does everything Excel does - at least everything I've ever used Excel
> for.
>
> Seems like the open source data modeling tools aren't feature-rich
> quite yet.
>
> Dana
>
>
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