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mooneater | karma 1583 | avg karma 2.83 · 2009-01-20 17:19:53+00:00

Lovely. Can anyone comment on what software was used to produce this diagram?

wallflower | karma 56532 | avg karma 8.26 · 2009-01-20 17:27:33+00:00

It looks similar to what we get from our $$ Erwin modeler but not exactly. Erwin can do quite a bit of reverse-engineering or read a SQL file.

mooneater | karma 1583 | avg karma 2.83 · 2009-01-20 11:35:36

Turns out this is another cross-post from reddit. They are discussing how this was made: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/7r3mg/ever_wond...

Sujan | karma 5087 | avg karma 5.42 · 2009-01-20 18:41:01+00:00

DBDesigner 4.

wenbert | karma 501 | avg karma 1.58 · 2009-01-21 02:10:23+00:00

I just Googled this. Looks awesome but no support for Mac :-(. Do you know one that is as good as DB Designer that runs on a Mac?

jm4 | karma 3225 | avg karma 4.37 · 2009-01-20 21:00:17

You could take a look at Aqua Data Studio or DB Visualizer. I haven't used DB Designer so I don't know how they compare, but DB Visualizer is a pretty nice tool and not too expensive.

wenbert | karma 501 | avg karma 1.58 · 2009-01-20 21:13:11

Thanks. I was hoping to find a Free (as in beer) one... I have been looking for quite awhile already but still could not find anything that is Open Sourced

delano | karma 2609 | avg karma 2.92 · 2009-01-21 08:59:17+00:00

You could start an instance of Windows at Amazon to run DBDesigner for a few hours ($0.125 per).

Angostura | karma 15948 | avg karma 3.2 · 2009-01-21 13:43:23+00:00

SQLEditor might be worth a look:

http://www.malcolmhardie.com/sqleditor/

Costs $70-something I think, but has a free trial and generates the SQL to set up the tables from your diagrams.

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