[AccessD] database modelling

Visio 200x is a great program. but I've never seen a
tool that could do what SDW could. It gives you the
possibility to "zoom into" a diagram. Start with the
core business process. From there you can drill down
to 'lower'-processes. You can add relationships to
data stores, these datastores have to be filled with
fields and stuff.

After you're done with you're eg 27 level diagram you
hit the "Check" button and it reports that on level 4
you have no output for process x, datastore y isn't
referenced, etc etc etc.

Unfortunatly it is VERY expensive and the company I
now work doesn't have it and is not going to, bummer.

thnx for the link i'll check it out.

Sander


--- Charlotte Foust <cfoust at infostatsystems.com>
wrote:
> I don't know why you're against Visio, but have you
> tried DeZign for
> Databases?
>   http://www.datanamic.com/dezign/index.html
> 
> Charlotte Foust
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sad Der [mailto:accessd666 at yahoo.com] 
> Sent: Monday, July 14, 2003 1:49 AM
> To: Acces User Group
> Subject: [AccessD] database modelling
> 
> 
> hi group,
> 
> today I received a present: several(!) new access
> (2k) applications that
> we need to maintain.
> 
> I want to start creating modells for all of these
> application.
> 
> The most importent models I want to create are:
> -Data flow diagram (DFD) (witch
> tables/queries/fields
> are used in wich form/report/etc.)
> -Software flow models (wich function/sub/module is
> used in wich form/report)
> 
> The only tool I ever used to create DFD's with is
> SDW
> (System Development Workbench). It's a b#tch of a
> tool
> but once you've got it setup it is a great and fast
> tool.
> 
> Questions:
> Does anybody know
> 1) other good (read NOT Visio) tools to create
> DFD's?
> 2) tools to create these 'software diagrams'?
> 
> thnx,
> 
> Sander
> 
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