How can I create a cool data model table map?

[serge]

I first got this map from SQL Server Magazine subscription. Now i

see it's available to download as a PDF from Microsoft.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en

I've just installed Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals

and for the next coming weeks i'll get a chance to see what kind of data

model design capabilities the product offers.

My question would be do you know how I can make our database

model look cool like this map? Would you know if this is a third party

software that does this with nice colors and all?

Do you think I can do similar quality data model map using VSTE for

DB Pro?

Thank you

[David Portas]

serge wrote:

I first got this map from SQL Server Magazine subscription. Now i

see it's available to download as a PDF from Microsoft.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en

I've just installed Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals

and for the next coming weeks i'll get a chance to see what kind of data

model design capabilities the product offers.

My question would be do you know how I can make our database

model look cool like this map? Would you know if this is a third party

software that does this with nice colors and all?

Do you think I can do similar quality data model map using VSTE for

DB Pro?

Thank you

Take a look at Visio:

http://office.microsoft.com/en-gb/visio

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[christopher.secord]

serge wrote:

>
My question would be do you know how I can make our database

model look cool like this map? Would you know if this is a third party

Take a look at Visual Paradigm.
http://www.visual-paradigm.com/product/vpuml/

I agree that it's very useful to have nice ER diagrams handy when
coding. There is some overhead involved though as you have to format
the diagrams yourself no matter what tool you use, but it's worth it.

How does anyone code without an ER diagram??

chris

[Ed Murphy]

ch****************@gmail.com wrote:

How does anyone code without an ER diagram??

Personally, I tend to work with small enough subsets that I can keep
the relationships straight in my head, but then I don't do a lot of
large-scale system-building. Alas, for many others, I expect the
answer is "badly".