On 07/27/2010 02:17 PM, Tim wrote:
> 
>>> What do y'all use for data modeling on linux?  By "data modeling", I mean
>>> drawing pictures of relational database schemas.
>>
>>    Xfig and PSTricks. The latter has entity-relationship shapes that are
>> useful. A few years ago I used an add-on to eclipse, but I forget the name
>> of that tool. There are also some that will generate SQL from the image, but
>> I never got those working well.
> 
> 
> "dia" is also nice for some diagrams, but I don't remember if it has
> the right little arrows and such for relational diagrams...
> 
> tim
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Graphviz is the classic tool for this purpose. Note I did not say "best" or
"worst". But when I was tasked with creating a UML-looking thing, I had
graphviz figured out and working for me in a hurry.

Carlos
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