[AccessD] document development tools

I have used Artiso Visual Case:

http://www.visualcase.com/

It has good drawing facilities, and it has a native Access .mdb forward and
reverse engineering tool. You can also publish your data model to a
web-based viewer. It also will do UML for objects and object pattern design,
with .NET and Java support.

It sells for about $450 USD for a single user. There is a 30 day free trial.

-Ken

-----Original Message-----
From: MartyConnelly [mailto:martyconnelly at shaw.ca]
Sent: Friday, October 22, 2004 7:25 PM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
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
>
>
>***************************************************************************
***********************************************
>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