open source database visualization

Christopher Chisholm christopher.chisholm at syamsoftware.com
Tue Mar 14 10:31:02 EST 2006


Jerry Feldman wrote:
> On Tuesday 14 March 2006 9:46 am, Christopher Chisholm wrote:
>   
>> Hey Everyone,
>>
>> Does anyone know of any open source or freeware project that can graph
>> relational databases?  I'm thinking of something similar to the way MS
>> Access draws tables, or similar to Visio.
>>
>> I don't need the program to be able to read the contents of an existing
>> database (though that may be nice).  All I really need is something very
>> simple that lets me create tables and specify key constraints.
>>
>> I'm running Windows, and while I have access to Linux boxes it would be
>> a lot easier to have this on my desktop.
>>     
> I've used DB Designer 4. 
> http://www.fabforce.net/dbdesigner4/
> There are some screen shots on the web site. 
>   


Thanks for the feedback, DB Designer looks like a winner to me.  It 
looks like it can even connect to remote databases and work with them 
live!  Very cool.

thanks again,

-chris



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