Re: A free tool like Erwin

Lew, 19.03.2008 13:24:
> Sabine Dinis Blochberger wrote:
>> The DBDesigner is too MySQL centric (it puts foreign keys into the
>> diagram) for me, the Toad is more true to the ERD standard, I suppose.
> 
> How is that MySQL-centric?  Especially since in its marketplace, MySQL 
> is the only product to offer an engine, MyISAM, that doesn't even 
> sup****t foreign keys.  (Its other engines do sup****t FKs; MyISAM is for 
> tables that need performance at the expense of architecture and safety.)
> 
I don't think putting FKs into the diagram was meant to be "MySQL centric"
but the whole tool is (with regards to default datatypes, a property
"Storage engine" for the tables etc).

But the fork that was now created on sourceforge seems to try to get rid
of the MySQL centric stuff. I sure hope it also increases stability and
doesn't die before releasing something decent ;)

Thomas