[AccessD] Visio w/Access Normalization

Steve Capistrant scapistrant at symphonyinfo.com
Fri May 9 16:54:02 CDT 2003


I love Visio.  Not so much for the design stage (its faster to mock up in
Access), but to publish the data model to customers.  You can export your
Access data model to Visio really easily and then arrange the tables using
as much real estate as you want.  Then bring your file to Kinko's and have
them print a 2'x3' poster of your data model.  The power users within the
customer's organization are in heaven (assuming you provide them with some
method of being exposed to the data for custom querying and reporting.).

Steve Capistrant
scapistrant at symphonyinfo.com
Phone: 612-333-1311
Symphony Information Services
www.symphonyinfo.com
212 3rd Ave N, Ste 404
Minneapolis, MN 55401


-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of William
Hindman
Sent: Friday, May 09, 2003 4:08 PM
To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Visio w/Access Normalization


Jim...anyone

...I'm just now really getting into Visio ...has anyone here integrated it
with Access in an application?
...my intent is to use it as the primary user interface with a tradeshow
booth booking app and I'm looking for anyone who's done something similar.

William Hindman
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Lawrence (AccessD)" <accessd at shaw.ca>
To: <accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Friday, May 09, 2003 5:02 PM
Subject: RE: [AccessD] Access Normalization


> Hi Arthur:
>
> What do you think of MS Viso as a design tools?
>
> Jim
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Arthur Fuller
> Sent: Friday, May 09, 2003 5:16 AM
> To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com
> Subject: RE: [AccessD] Access Normalization
>
>
> 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
>
>
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