Re: INFORMIX WISH LIST

Posted in 1997

Daniel James — 26 Jun 1997 19:53:09 -0400 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Travis Rayhons wrote: > My current remedy for this is what most people do, name your fields > and > tables close to the meaning of their purpose. Also, I keep a data > dictionary in HTML format on my development server. The hassle is > when I > change a table, I must go to my HTML files and make the same change > there. > If this was all implemented right into "Create/Alter" table, then I > only > have to make changes in one place. Alternatly, you could always use a data modelling tool that is made for this purpose (i.e. ERwin or S+Designer) and get the added benefit of data diagramming, consistency checking and all sort of other things that I haven't had time to learn yet :) -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Daniel James - Database Administrator djames@statsci.com DAPD Div of MathSoft (formerly StatSci) (206) 283-8802 x284