[PLUG] Database E-R design tools
Roderick A. Anderson
raanders at acm.org
Thu Nov 6 17:27:01 UTC 2003
On Thu, 6 Nov 2003, Rich Shepard wrote:
> I've just looked on freshmeat.net and the only two CASE tools for database
> design are a year or two since the last news on their home pages. I'm
> looking for a tool that will allow me to set up a database schema by drawing
> entities and relationships and then produce the sql that can be used by
> PostgreSQL.
>
> Anyone have suggestions?
http://gborg.postgresql.org/browse.php?84
I should look at more rigorous design practices but stick with the
rock-throwing design method. Put something together, give it to the
users, and have them throw rocks at parts they don't like. Well actually
I usually can't get them to sit down and _really_ analyze/describe what
they want done. So I put something together that I think is right and
they throw rocks at it - I fix the broken parts and we restart the cycle.
The rocks do get smaller and fewer as we go along.
So I can't say which of the above is good, bad, or ugly.
Rod
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