Re: Any freeware graphic display of DDL software available?

From: Rajiv M Ranganath <rajiv(dot)ranganath(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Susan Cassidy <susan(dot)cassidy(at)decisionsciencescorp(dot)com>, "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Any freeware graphic display of DDL software available?
Date: 2015-05-08 00:08:10
Message-ID: CACW1YzsOYUNDCe6+6LpKph1iVmZ_60fC52Uu6hZQXURBk=q-UA@mail.gmail.com
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If you use Amazon Linux on EC2, we have packaged SchemaSpy support for
it. More details are here,

https://lambda-linux.io/blog/2015/05/07/announcing-schemaspy-support-for-amazon-linux/

Best,
Rajiv

On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 7:46 PM, Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>
wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 10:45 AM, Susan Cassidy
> <susan(dot)cassidy(at)decisionsciencescorp(dot)com> wrote:
>> Is there any free or cheap software that will read in DDL and output
>> a graphic display of it? Preferably showing links for foreign keys.
>>
>> I know about Erwin, but it is too expensive.
>
> I want to give a shout out for schemaspy . I think it's about the best
> ERD tool out there; the graphviz relationship mapping 'just works'
> and you have to spend zero time mucking around with the tool post
> extraction which is a critical flaw with many ERD tools. It's aware
> but there are undocumented switches to remove the ads.
>
> My experience is that ERD tools that require manual steps of any kind
> tend to become quickly out of date and useless.
>
> merlin
>
>
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