I think the smartest thing I ever did was this...
I have an office at home... just one of the bedrooms that is my
sanctuary of geekdom... about 6 months ago we were walking through Home
Depot... no, sorry, Lowes... we were looking for some sort of paneling
to spruce the place up a bit.
What I found is a panel that is made out of whiteboard material. So,
picture an entire 15'x16' room (is ' or " feet? I never remember!)
where every single wall is whiteboard, floor to ceiling.
*THIS* has become *THE* way I do most of my design work. It's great...
any time I have an idea I simply find a blank area of wall and have at
it! I put in a chair rail around the entire room and I keep various
colored markers on it.
My only problem is keeping the kids from scribbling all over my work :)
I don't have this at work (yet... talking to the building manager!) but
I still find a giant whiteboard to be the best for database design, or
any other kind of design work. Once I have a fairly solid idea where
everything is going, I usually break out Visio. As a general-purpose
diagramming tool I find it to be second to none. I can create just
about any UML diagram, flowchart or whatever else in it. True, I can't
spit code out of it, but I don't generally like letting tools write my
code for me anyway.
But, forget all that... go buy that paneling and pick a room! :)
Frank
Graham Reeds wrote:
Rafael Taboada wrote:
Hi folks. When u design a database... What soft do u use?? What's the
best??
I use Embarcadero E/R... Is there any program better than embarcadero?
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Rafael Taboada
Software Engineer
Cell : +511-97753290
"No creo en el destino pues no me gusta tener la idea de controlar mi
vida"
I use pen, paper, and brain power:-)
When the first round of requirements discussions are complete I then use
SQLyog (http://www.webyog.com/), MySQL Query Browser and MySQL
Workbench. DBDesigner 4 was the old MySQL Workbench which is getting
rewritten from the ground up. Haven't installed DBDesigner 4 before
since Workbench just about works for me (at least to visualise and check
I haven't missed any foreign keys).
There is a Windoze and Mac OSX version of Workbench but no Linux yet.
G.
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