2006/11/18, Michael Gentry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
I wasn't trying to disparage the graphical tools. They certainly have
value. For the schema I work on, though, you'd need 2 30" monitors
(and I only have a 17") to hold just a fraction of the schema in a
graphical representation, so it doesn't work too well for me. Even
when printed out from within another tool using large plotter paper,
it is hard to find things (I don't grep on paper very well). Speaking
of grep, I wonder if I ever opened that ticket to add a find function
in the modeler...to me that would be useful (and much easier to add).
Thanks!
Actually, I regularly find I'm only interested in a small part of the
model which is best found the way you described it - with a search. A
find-as-you-type style of navigation in a model consisting of dozens
or hundreds of tables would be even better to switch from table to
table.
Viewing tables at a specified number of hops from a selected table
would also be of great use: you simply ignore everything outside of
your point of interest.
Cheers,
t.n.a..
