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Database Schema Designer - Effective Database Design
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database-schema-designer.exe,
9.6Mb
Type: Shareware. Free to try, $1,495 to buy.
Pretty much a rare exception to the programs usually available here but bear
with me.
You're probably tired of hearing me complain about working with databases; in 30
years of computing database work still causes me more grief than anything else.
However databases are a fact of computing life and getting the design right is
critical. Correcting design flaws after the fact can be expensive and certainly
time consuming.
If you consult or work for a large company and
work with databases you may still be working with design on a whiteboard or even
a legal pad. If you're like me you spend countless hours going over every detail
before any actual work.
Database Schema Designer uses a natural and
intuitive interface to make the whole design process easier and a lot faster.
How? Look at these features:
Most Frequently Used Database Objects Support
- Check constraints, foreign key constraints, functions, indexes, permissions,
primary key constraints, rules, stored procedures, tables, triggers, types and
more.
Automatic Object Naming System - Guarantee consistent Object names through
the built in naming convention system. Most scheme objects can derive their
names automatically. Name changes can update the other related objects.
Portable Open Source Document Format - Database Schema Designer files are stored
as standard XML documents.
Database Interface - Scheme document's can easily be generated to SQL
code in the text editor, either to a file or directly to the database. You can
even reverse engineer an existing database directly from the database server.
Scheme Explorer - Easily navigate centralized management of all your schema
objects.
All this is much easier to appreciate if you experience the program first hand. Download the
demo, think it will end up paying for itself in short order.