How can I create a cool data model table map? -- sql server (alternate)

sql server (alternate) : How can I create a cool data model table map?

David Portas
10/14/2006 12:19:38 PM

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Take a look at Visio:

http://office.microsoft.com/en-gb/visio

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serge
10/14/2006 12:53:20 PM

I first got this map from SQL Server Magazine subscription. Now i

see it's available to download as a PDF from Microsoft.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=2EC9E842-40BE-4321-9B56-92FD3860FB32&displaylang=en

I've just installed Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals

and for the next coming weeks i'll get a chance to see what kind of data

model design capabilities the product offers.

My question would be do you know how I can make our database

model look cool like this map? Would you know if this is a third party

software that does this with nice colors and all?

Do you think I can do similar quality data model map using VSTE for

DB Pro?

Thank you

christopher.secord NO[at]SPAM gmail.com
10/17/2006 12:49:17 PM

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Take a look at Visual Paradigm.
http://www.visual-paradigm.com/product/vpuml/

I agree that it's very useful to have nice ER diagrams handy when
coding. There is some overhead involved though as you have to format
the diagrams yourself no matter what tool you use, but it's worth it.

How does anyone code without an ER diagram??

chris

Ed Murphy
10/18/2006 2:07:34 AM

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Personally, I tend to work with small enough subsets that I can keep
the relationships straight in my head, but then I don't do a lot of
large-scale system-building. Alas, for many others, I expect the

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