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Any tools similar to DB designer ?

By dhandapani k - Oct. 03, 2008

Hi,
I used DB designed for mysql schema design & for table relationship diagrams. But its not good I feel. Can anybody suggest me any other good open source tools something like DB designer.


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  1. By an anonymous user on Oct. 04, 2008

    Check out the clay modeler plugin for Eclipse. It is GUI based and pretty slick. The free version has limitations like not being able to print, for example, but you can also use it to reverse engineer existing schemas...


    Good Luck.


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  2. By Richard Fanning on Oct. 04, 2008

    Try http://dev.mysql.com/workbench/ It's pretty good. Can generate schema


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  3. By dhandapani k on Oct. 08, 2008

    Thanks for the suggestion. I will try it.


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  4. By an anonymous user on Oct. 08, 2008

    Workbench is good. It's a bit buggy on the Mac, and has often times crashed on me during reverse engineering a database, especially if I only select a few tables and not the entire schema - it cannot seem to break dependencies too well.


    That being said, it is pretty tight, especially since it is free and the price is right!


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  5. By ramesh elisetti on Oct. 15, 2008

    http://dev.mysql.com/workbench try this it is very good


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  6. By qiu bad on Oct. 15, 2008

    powerdesigner?


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  7. By Jerry Leeper on Oct. 15, 2008

    The mysql Workbench has been greatly improved in the last year. It used crash like a crackhead without a dealer; much better now.


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  8. By jack tm on Oct. 15, 2008

    powerdesigner is not open source tools


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  9. By qingzhu kong on Oct. 16, 2008

    powder designer or visio


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  10. By Robert Schambach on Feb. 10, 2009

    dbConstructor is very good and relatively inexpensive.


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