[AccessD] document development tools

Barbara Ryan BarbaraRyan at cox.net
Fri Oct 22 20:14:28 CDT 2004


Thanks, Marty....I'll pass on the info..............Barb



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "MartyConnelly" <martyconnelly at shaw.ca>
To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving"
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Sent: Friday, October 22, 2004 8:25 PM
Subject: Re: [AccessD] document development tools


> You are probably looking for CASE (Computer Aided System Engineering)
Tools.
>
> I have used Enterprise Architect
> http://www.sparxsystems.com.au/
>  Good for reverse engineering an Access mdb just plug in the mdb or an
> ODBC connection to SQL and it will layout a data model or ER diagram.
> Also lays out XSD schemas for tables and queries. Does UML modelling
> Probably best in it's price range for diagramming $200. There is trial
> version.
>
> Case Studio is good too. It generates SQL table scripts.
> http://www.casestudio.com/enu/
>
> Then you get into the $1000 price range with ER-Win and WinDev
> and there are the $10,000 packages  Rose, System Architect, and ARTiSAN,
> and probably even higher mainframe packages.Texas Instrument IEF
>
> I saw one about 15 years ago that produced good Cobol Code but none
> since then.
> So dont believe any code generation hype with Case Tools.
>
> Barbara Ryan wrote:
>
> >I received the following email from my client ---- any thoughts /
suggestions?.....Thanks, Barb Ryan
> >
> >
>
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> >Do you know of any document development tools, something like VISIO
Technical or Quick CAD that
> >are specifically designed to support a tedium free graphical development
of a
> >table architecture or data model?
> >
> >I'm wondering if there is an affordable application out there for
> >drafting up table schema's and database design diagrams that is  easier
to use than
> >wiring together a bunch of text boxes or flow chart symbols in a MSword
document.
> >
> >Just curious if you know about somthing that the development community
uses.
> >
> >
>
> -- 
> Marty Connelly
> Victoria, B.C.
> Canada
>
>
>
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