RE: ERWIN vs Designer

[Stephane Paquette]

I've used Designer but never used Erwin.
Designer has a medium to big learning curve.


Stephane Paquette
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I have been tasked with the responsibility of reverse engineering over 2500
small Access databases to get a picture of all the information that our
users are capturing (schemas, data models etc) to see if we can incorporate
their requirements into our production systems and stop them from creating
anymore personal databases.

I've never used ERWIN or Designer 2000 (or whatever it is called now) so I
don't know which product would produce the best results with the smallest
learning curve.  Does anyone have any advice/opinions?

TIA
Debbie
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RE: ERWIN vs Designer

[Robson, Peter]

We have met just your requirement using Visio Professional. Easy, minimal
learning curve. But it is not a case tool. In passing, we also use the
Oracle tool for design work. And it is a significant learning curve.

peter
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> 
> I have been tasked with the responsibility of reverse 
> engineering over 2500
> small Access databases to get a picture of all the 
> information that our
> users are capturing (schemas, data models etc) to see if we 
> can incorporate
> their requirements into our production systems and stop them 
> from creating
> anymore personal databases.
> 
> I've never used ERWIN or Designer 2000 (or whatever it is 
> called now) so I
> don't know which product would produce the best results with 
> the smallest
> learning curve.  Does anyone have any advice/opinions?
> 
> TIA
> Debbie
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RE: ERWIN vs Designer

[Whittle Jerome Contr NCI]

Title: RE: ERWIN vs Designer






Check out Total Access Analyzer at

http://www.fmsinc.com/Products/access.asp


Jerry Whittle

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I have been tasked with the responsibility of reverse engineering over 2500

small Access databases to get a picture of all the information that our

users are capturing (schemas, data models etc) to see if we can incorporate

their requirements into our production systems and stop them from creating

anymore personal databases.


I've never used ERWIN or Designer 2000 (or whatever it is called now) so I

don't know which product would produce the best results with the smallest

learning curve.  Does anyone have any advice/opinions?


TIA

Debbie

RE: ERWIN vs Designer

[Jeremy Pulcifer]

Title: RE: ERWIN vs Designer





Assuming you can't just use the Access Relationships editor to do this (if all you're doing is drawing the diagrams, I'd use the diagram that's already there), ERWin has a much easier learning curve. It's bloated, but it works.


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> Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2003 12:44 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Subject: ERWIN vs Designer
> 
> 
> I have been tasked with the responsibility of reverse 
> engineering over 2500 small Access databases to get a picture 
> of all the information that our users are capturing (schemas, 
> data models etc) to see if we can incorporate their 
> requirements into our production systems and stop them from 
> creating anymore personal databases.
> 
> I've never used ERWIN or Designer 2000 (or whatever it is 
> called now) so I don't know which product would produce the 
> best results with the smallest learning curve.  Does anyone 
> have any advice/opinions?
> 
> TIA
> Debbie
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> Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net
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ERWIN vs Designer

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I have been tasked with the responsibility of reverse engineering over 2500
small Access databases to get a picture of all the information that our
users are capturing (schemas, data models etc) to see if we can incorporate
their requirements into our production systems and stop them from creating
anymore personal databases.

I've never used ERWIN or Designer 2000 (or whatever it is called now) so I
don't know which product would produce the best results with the smallest
learning curve.  Does anyone have any advice/opinions?

TIA
Debbie
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