Hi I have used S-Designer and ERWin in the past - both in development DBA roles.
Don't recall exact features of S-Designer (was about 5 to 6 years ago) but remember it to be very useful. Have more recent experiences of ERWin and found it very useful. It is expensive but well worth the investment. I used ERWin in a product development environment where, due to the development cycle, we had numerous versions of our product's data model e.g. development, test, production etc. and multiple releases of our product. In this environment ERWin was used to maintain each data model and promote changes between physical databases. E.g. Development environment may have new tables, new columns, different data types etc. to the test environment. ERWin can maintain these differences by connecting to the databases and comparing the two physical databases and reporting on and generating scripts to synchronise the databases. We also used ERWin to maintain our storage parameters (tablespaces, index tablespaces) as well as the indexes themselves. Both ERWin and S-Designer will generate the scripts required to create your database objects - prerequisite is that database, schemas and optionally tablespaces already exist. Clear case, MS Visual Source Safe , RCS, SCCS etc. can be used to maintain versioning of each ERWin/S-Designer model for each build/release to label each data model version with same label as source code of rest of product. Hope this helps. Regards, Mark. -----Original Message----- Sent: 14 October 2003 11:10 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L How essential the following tools to a DBAs job? (viz) Rational Rose, Clear case for Versioning etc. What are Data Modelling tools avbl. in the market and which are widely used (other than Oracle Designer)?. TIA -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Patterson, Mark INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
