I use Visio Pro 2000 to reverse engineer schemas of existing databases
into diagrams, it's useful for documentation purposes, and for exploring
an unfamiliar schema, for example, you can click on a table, see all the
relationships, click on a relationship and see the child tables, that
sort of thing.
The one major problem is that it can't forward-engineer changes you make
into the diagram into SQL statements, which is odd because I would have
thought this would be much easier to do than reverse engineering, it
would be a simple feature to add. But if you want that, you'll probably
have to buy a real CASE tool.
Cheers,
g
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I would like to know if anyone is using Visio to re-engineer ERD's from
an
Oracle DB? Any problems, gotchas or recommendations are welcome
I have Visio Prof. 5c and will be using Oracle DB 8.1.7.
Thanks,
Ken Janusz, CPIM
Database Conversion Lead
Sufficient Systems, Inc.
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