Re: entity relationship diagram tool

In article <3nb32n$enn@panix.com>, edwinb@panix.com (Edwin Babadaglian) writes: > In <3n9mti$puv@news.informix.com> dougmc@informix.com (Doug McAllister) writes: > > > I have a client that is interested in doing entity/relationship diagrams from > >an Informix database. They do not want to do case. They do not want to do > >re-engineering. They do not want to do application generation. > >They want a tool that will, at most, read database definition sql and > >generate e/r diagrams. And at the least, a drawing tool that will help with > >this process. > >If anyone knows of such a tool, I would welcome any information. > >Thanks > >dougmc@informix.com > We use a product called Visio with a software shapes add-on. It is a plain drawing tool and so cannot read the SQL itself but the shapes are 'smart' in that you can attach documents to them, connections between objects remain connected to the objects when you move them and each object has space for user data that can be passed to attached applications. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- David Paulo, InForm Group Ltd.,PO Box 1444, Wellington, New Zealand. Ph: +64 4 472 0996 Fax: +64 4 473 2407 Email: david@inform.co.nz = What would you do if you knew that you could not fail = ----------------------------------------------------------------------