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Posted to derby-user@db.apache.org by Michael Segel <ms...@segel.com> on 2005/11/21 19:21:35 UTC

Maybe a silly question...

Is there an Open Source ER diagraming / schema development tool?

Right now all I can find available are tools costing around 3K or more.
Pretty expensive for something to draw pretty pictures. Its no wonder a lot of 
people use Visio.

Or am I still dating myself?

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Re: Maybe a silly question...

Posted by Lars Clausen <lc...@statsbiblioteket.dk>.

On Mon, 2005-11-21 at 19:21, Michael Segel wrote:
> Is there an Open Source ER diagraming / schema development tool?
> 
> Right now all I can find available are tools costing around 3K or more.
> Pretty expensive for something to draw pretty pictures. Its no wonder a lot of 
> people use Visio.

There is Dia (http://www.gnome.org/projects/dia), which even has tools
to generate SQL statements for various databases.  While it's not a
hundred procent stable, I do hear that people are using it in practice. 
Myself, I make an informal overview with Dia, but don't try to generate
code from it.

> Or am I still dating myself?

That I refuse to speculate on:)

-Lars

Re: Maybe a silly question...

Posted by Ahmed Mohombe <am...@yahoo.com>.

> Is there an Open Source ER diagraming / schema development tool?
This one is pretty stable:
http://www.azzurri.jp/en/software/clay/index.jsp

Ahmed.