Oracle SQL-Developer is announcing modeling-support in an upcoming release.
Here are the top features:
Database Data Modeling to support:
* Designing logical Entity Relation Diagrams
* Building physical schema designs
* Generating and executing DDL scripts
* Reverse and forward engineering of existing relational data structures
* Data domain administration
* Naming standardization
* Model formatting (font, colors)
* Importing data models from CA Erwin and Oracle Designer
* Compare and merge facilities
* Multiple database support
o Oracle Database
o DB2 (Mainframe & UDB)
o Microsoft SQL Server
* Logical and physical multi-dimensional modeling
* Object relational Data Types
* Spatial Modeling
* Multi-level logical and physical design environments
* Model validation rules
* Offline (file based) and Repository based modeling
what a wonderful news. The old designer is not the best choice today, since it got the codefreeze years ago.
Gerd
hmmm .. good news indeed .. but having managed without designer for the last few years, I wonder if we'll ever make the investment again ?
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