Arthur Fuller
artful at rogers.com
Fri May 9 07:15:33 CDT 2003
Great concept, a normalization tool! "Yo, dumbass, these columns should be a related table, click OK to overrule yo dumbass design, foo!" :-) AFAIK no one has built it yet. I'm a big fan of database-design tools such as Erwin, PowerDesigner and (my fave lately) DeZign, which costs 1/10 of the price of the aforementioned and delivers almost all their functionality. Said tools can inhale a db and turn it into a model and let you remodel it and then exhale a db to a list of targets, automatically converting data types etc. You can inhale Access and exhale MySQL if that's what you want, or Oracle or DB2 or MS-SQL or Sybase. When I work on a new project, I spend a lot of time in DeZign before writing a line of code. When I work on an existing project, first thing I do is import it into DeZign. It vaguely resembles the Access Relationships window but offers many more benefits, most notably Domains. (I own no shares in this company; I'm just a satisfied user.) Back to your question. If the db Admins have not granted her sufficient privs to export definitions then there is no simple way around it. She is asking either for hacker tools or for increased privs. Secondly, why export table definitions to Excel? Why not simple ascii files that you can run in QA to rebuild structures? Arthur -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Gale Perez Sent: May 8, 2003 6:46 PM To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com Subject: [AccessD] Access Normalization Hello! I haven't posted for quite a while (have been working in Oracle, am now doing project management and working on some Access tracking DBs). It's nice to be back and see familiar names :) Is there a way to export Access table definitions into Excel or into a normalization tool (we're using Brackets)? I'm asking on someone else's behalf and she has tried Export but gets the message that she doesn't have permissions (it's not a secured database). Can you access the data dictionary with SQL statements? Thank you for any assistance, Gale __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. http://search.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com