[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?  
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>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. 
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Marty Connelly
Victoria, B.C.
Canada