Could you provide us with the error messages you are getting?!?!
My apologies. The problem appears to have been the copying of unexpected
characters into the SQL. I generated the SQL for the tables and put it into
a file. Apparently when I copy and paste the SQL, some hidden characters are
I asked a similar question recently and as a result of my searching, I found
a moderately priced, $99 (I think), data modeling tool from XTG (download
here):
http://www.xtgsystems.com/download.php3
I downloaded it and set up a few tables (only 4 are allowed with eval), then
generated the sequel
I've tried searching the archives, but I haven't seen a direct question
about an open source tool or freely available application that could be used
to model a relational database schema. Some of my friends use Sybase's Power
Designer or ERwin, but these are very expensive (at least for me)