[BNM] Online SQL ERD tool

[Karim Ahmed]

The excellent SQLYog has rudimentry schema design built in (
http://www.webyog.com/en/)

They may be tempted to develop a full blown ERM tool if the demand existed
so it may be worth dropping them a line.

On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 3:13 PM, Alastair James <al.james at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks all for the input. It seems like this idea might have some legs.
> I am certainly going to look the existing desktop (mostly windows) tools
> for
> features etc.
>
> Leo: Interesting point about naming conventions etc... I guess there is a
> larger point that people using rails, cake (etc..) might not use SQL at
> all.
> So export to Rails active record classes / migrations would be useful... So
> maybe it could have, instead of target database mysql, target format
> 'rails'
> or 'cake'...
>
> Al
>
> 2009/1/5 Jason Bailey <jasonslbailey at yahoo.co.uk>
>
> >
> > Toad for mysql is free but I think you'd want to be looking at toad data
> > modeller (oracle,mysql, mssql) which isn't free.
> > http://www.toadsoft.com/toaddm/toad_data_modeler.htm
> >
> > Not sure how much ERD stuff there is in the free toad for mysql.
> > As you're looking at creating your own tool the data modeller might be
> > useful for an idea of feature requirements.
> >
> > Jas
> >
> >
> >
> > --- On Mon, 5/1/09, Wayne Douglas <wayne at codingvista.com> wrote:
> > > I've used Toad[1] in the past (where sql server
> > > management studio isn't
> > > available) - there's a free version - not sure if that
> > > version includes the
> > > data modeller which does the ERDs but it is good.
> > > [1] - http://www.toadsoft.com
> > >
> >
> >
> >
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