Re: easy database design

pieterrrr@my-dejanews.com wrote: > > Is there a way of easily designing a database without having to write the DDL > statements in SQL if you don't have the New Era Tool available? > > For instance, can you design an empty database in Access and then convert it > to Informix? > > Pascal Van Hecke There is no easy way to design a database. There are tools to reduce the drudge work of writing the SQL. Try any decent CASE tool. If you think ACCESS can maintain and name all your constraints properly and use all the Informix facilities, go ahead and use it - but check first. (If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. If all you have is Access, everything looks like <your word here>.) -- Peter Lancashire Information Systems Specialist, Bayer plc Eastern Way, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, IP32 7AH, UK Tel: +44-1635-562258, Fax: +44-1635-562281 --- If all else fails, read the instructions and the release notes. Join Infuse, the UK Informix User Group at http://www.infuse.org.uk/ ---