Utility for Table Schemas

[Neil]

Anyone have a recommendation for a good inexpensive or free utility for
developing table schemas.

[rkc]

Neil wrote:

Could be; but I was hoping for some free or inexpensive tool for doing
this -- doesn't have to be fancy.

You know, it's interesting: I was expecting lots of replies saying, "I use
this," or "I use that." But that hasn't been the case. So what do most
people do, just design with pencil and paper or just Word or Excel? Or just
go straight to table design?

mspaint.exe

[Tim Marshall]

Neil wrote:

With me, if it's not on my PC, it gets lost. The only way I find mail is by
knowing which part of the floor it was left on.... My computer files, on the
other hand, are very organized. :-)

8) Re the stickies, the good thing about this stage of development
means I take a day (or three) to clear the myriads of paper, empty pop
bottles, sandwich crusts to clear off my desk and organize myself. 8)
--
Tim http://www.ucs.mun.ca/~tmarshal/
^o<
/#) "Burp-beep, burp-beep, burp-beep?" - Quaker Jake
/^^ "Whatcha doin?" - Ditto "TIM-MAY!!" - Me

[Neil]

Thanks!

"Paul Ibison" <Pa*********@Py gmalion.Comwrot e in message
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Here's a nice list of such tools:
http://www.databaseanswers.com/modelling_tools.htm
Can't vouch for any of the free ones, but can recommend Erwin, Visio and
Enterprise Architect, all of which I've used.
Cheers,
Paul Ibison SQL Server MVP, www.replicationanswers.com .

[Neil]

Yeah; or I could just use crayons. ;-)

"rkc" <rk*@rochester. yabba.dabba.do. rr.bombwrote in message
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Neil wrote:

>Could be; but I was hoping for some free or inexpensive tool for doing
this -- doesn't have to be fancy.

You know, it's interesting: I was expecting lots of replies saying, "I
use this," or "I use that." But that hasn't been the case. So what do
most people do, just design with pencil and paper or just Word or Excel?
Or just go straight to table design?

mspaint.exe

[Neil]

Well, there is that! :-)

I've recently come up with a method for house/office cleaning. It's called
the "One Bag At A Time" method. What you do is you take a large plastic
garbage bag, walk around, and fill it up with trash, unneeded mail, other
miscellaneous unneeded things, and you keep going until the bag is full.
Then you take the bag out and stop. Then another time, you do another bag.
And you keep doing this until things are clean. This way, it's not too much
at once. And once you have the bag in your hand, you're motivated to find
stuff to put in it! :-)

N

"Tim Marshall" <TI****@PurpleP andaChasers.Moe rtheriumwrote in message
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Neil wrote:

>With me, if it's not on my PC, it gets lost. The only way I find mail is
by knowing which part of the floor it was left on.... My computer files,
on the other hand, are very organized. :-)

8) Re the stickies, the good thing about this stage of development means
I take a day (or three) to clear the myriads of paper, empty pop bottles,
sandwich crusts to clear off my desk and organize myself. 8)
--
Tim http://www.ucs.mun.ca/~tmarshal/
^o<
/#) "Burp-beep, burp-beep, burp-beep?" - Quaker Jake
/^^ "Whatcha doin?" - Ditto "TIM-MAY!!" - Me

[Neil]

Thanks.

"Roger Carlson" <NO************ *********@gmail .comwrote in message
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Actually, you can use the graphic tools in Excel to draw boxes and lines
to
create a simple ER diagrams.

In my classes, I give the students a PowerPoint template that has all the
objects created that they can just copy and paste into a new PowerPoint
document to draw their ER diagrams. It actually works pretty well. You can
find it here: http://www.rogersaccesslibrary.com/TutorialsDesign.html

--
--Roger Carlson
MS Access MVP
www.rogersaccesslibrary.com

"Neil" <no****@nospam. netwrote in message
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>Yes, I can list tables and fields in Excel; but I'd like to visually
display table relationships and joins. Surely there must be a tool out

there

>that does this.

"Karl" <so*****@sbcglo bal.bizwrote in message
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You can do this in Excel.

"Neil" <no****@nospam. netwrote in message
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I meant just a tool for playing with table designs and providing a
graphical interface/printing utility, not one that would do the

designing

>>work for me. I want to be able to design the tables manually, set up
relationships , and print the schemas, without creating the tables, and
then create the tables once I'm done with all the design work. Seems

that

>>such a utility exists.
"Allen Browne" <Al*********@Se eSig.Invalidwro te in message
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A utility to develop table schemas?

If ou are looking for suggestions on how to design schemas for a

variety

>>of needs, this might be useful:
http://www.databaseanswers.com/data_models/index.htm

In general, though, you only go go the trouble of creating a custom
database if there is no off-the-shelf solution. Therefore the bespoke
Access databases you create all have unique needs, and cannot be
designed by a utility.

--
Allen Browne - Microsoft MVP. Perth, Western Australia.
Tips for Access users - http://allenbrowne.com/tips.html
Reply to group, rather than allenbrowne at mvps dot org.

"Neil" <no****@nospam. netwrote in message
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Anyone have a recommendation for a good inexpensive or free utility

for

>>>developing table schemas.

[rkc]

Neil wrote:

Yeah; or I could just use crayons. ;-)

Etch-A-Sketch

[Neil]

Even better! :-)

"rkc" <rk*@rochester. yabba.dabba.do. rr.bombwrote in message
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Neil wrote:

>Yeah; or I could just use crayons. ;-)

Etch-A-Sketch