Re: A free tool like Erwin

Thomas Kellerer wrote:

> 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).
> 
Yeah, that's what I meant, the foreign key thing is yet another
pet-peeve if you will.

> 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

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