open source database visualization
Hey Everyone, Does anyone know of any open source or freeware project that can graph relational databases? I'm thinking of something similar to the way MS Access draws tables, or similar to Visio. I don't need the program to be able to read the contents of an existing database (though that may be nice). All I really need is something very simple that lets me create tables and specify key constraints. I'm running Windows, and while I have access to Linux boxes it would be a lot easier to have this on my desktop. Thanks! -chris ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: open source database visualization
On Tuesday 14 March 2006 09:46 am, Christopher Chisholm wrote: > Hey Everyone, > > Does anyone know of any open source or freeware project that can graph > relational databases? I'm thinking of something similar to the way MS > Access draws tables, or similar to Visio. I haven't tried it out, but doesn't the new OpenOffice have a database interface built in that is intended to simulate Access with ODBC backends? -Neil ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: open source database visualization
On Tuesday 14 March 2006 9:46 am, Christopher Chisholm wrote: > Hey Everyone, > > Does anyone know of any open source or freeware project that can graph > relational databases? I'm thinking of something similar to the way MS > Access draws tables, or similar to Visio. > > I don't need the program to be able to read the contents of an existing > database (though that may be nice). All I really need is something very > simple that lets me create tables and specify key constraints. > > I'm running Windows, and while I have access to Linux boxes it would be > a lot easier to have this on my desktop. I've used DB Designer 4. http://www.fabforce.net/dbdesigner4/ There are some screen shots on the web site. -- Jerry Feldman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: open source database visualization
Jerry Feldman wrote: On Tuesday 14 March 2006 9:46 am, Christopher Chisholm wrote: Hey Everyone, Does anyone know of any open source or freeware project that can graph relational databases? I'm thinking of something similar to the way MS Access draws tables, or similar to Visio. I don't need the program to be able to read the contents of an existing database (though that may be nice). All I really need is something very simple that lets me create tables and specify key constraints. I'm running Windows, and while I have access to Linux boxes it would be a lot easier to have this on my desktop. I've used DB Designer 4. http://www.fabforce.net/dbdesigner4/ There are some screen shots on the web site. Thanks for the feedback, DB Designer looks like a winner to me. It looks like it can even connect to remote databases and work with them live! Very cool. thanks again, -chris ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: open source database visualization
On Tuesday 14 March 2006 10:30 am, Christopher Chisholm wrote: > Thanks for the feedback, DB Designer looks like a winner to me. It > looks like it can even connect to remote databases and work with them > live! Very cool. It's not perfect, but it did a good job for the project I was working on. -- Jerry Feldman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: open source database visualization
On 3/14/06, Jerry Feldman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tuesday 14 March 2006 9:46 am, Christopher Chisholm wrote:> Hey Everyone,>> Does anyone know of any open source or freeware project that can graph> relational databases? I'm thinking of something similar to the way MS > Access draws tables, or similar to Visio.http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discussOne of my favs for this has been Dia. Pretty straight foward and similar to Visio.
Re: open source database visualization
VCG can be used to generate some fairly complex graphs. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: open source database visualization
On Tuesday 14 March 2006 11:21 am, Star wrote: > On 3/14/06, Jerry Feldman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tuesday 14 March 2006 9:46 am, Christopher Chisholm wrote: > > > Hey Everyone, > > > > > > Does anyone know of any open source or freeware project that can > > > graph relational databases? I'm thinking of something similar to the > > > way MS Access draws tables, or similar to Visio. > One of my favs for this has been Dia. Pretty straight foward and similar > to Visio. I just checked out their page, interesting program. DBDesigner4 is a database modeling program similar to Rational Rose. Dia, on the other hand, is a diagraming program similar to Visio. -- Jerry Feldman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: open source database visualization
On Mar 14, 2006, at 10:30, Christopher Chisholm wrote: Thanks for the feedback, DB Designer looks like a winner to me. It looks like it can even connect to remote databases and work with them live! Very cool. Bugger - this looks really great, but when I went to check out the forum I got: Dear DBDesigner4 users, Due to several attacks against the DBDesigner4 forum it has now been closed down. We simply cannot understand the sick motivation of people to attack Open Source projects. So please understand that we will not provide any support from now on. We will continue to host the DBD4 download till the release of the MySQL Workbench, its successor application that will be an official MySQL product. Then this project will rest in peace. Best regards, fabFORCE.net team -Bill - Bill McGonigle, Owner Work: 603.448.4440 BFC Computing, LLC Home: 603.448.1668 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: 603.252.2606 http://www.bfccomputing.com/Page: 603.442.1833 Blog: http://blog.bfccomputing.com/ VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
