Datamodelling under linux

[Sylvain Girard]

I don't need an O/R mapper right now, I only need to document the model. I
guess I have try try and get it done with Umbrello then...

On 8/30/06, Kristian Rink <kristian at zimmer428.net> wrote:
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> Am Wed, 30 Aug 2006 13:51:27 +0200
> schrieb "Sylvain Girard" <girard.sylvain at gmail.com>:
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> > data modelling as in RDBMS modelling :) UML modelling tools usually
> > aren't equipped for data modelling, since UML 1.0 doesn't define
> > RDBMS modelling...
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> Indeed. :) I don't know whether this is likely to change with UML 2.0,
> but somehow I doubt it - basically, UML is built around the idea of
> object-oriented design and thus drastically different from relational
> design as used in RDBMS modelling. To point your way somewhere else:
> There hardly are _any_ real usable (open-source) RDBMS design tools out
> there right now, but there are wagonloads of O/R mapping frameworks to
> persist your objects to some (relational) database while freeing you of
> the need to manually craft table definitions... Just an idea. ;)
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> However, while finishing my diploma thesis, I excessively used
> DBDesigner ( http://fabforce.net/dbdesigner4/ ) which is available for
> both Windows and Linux, but I had to run the Windows version using wine
> as the Linux version seems to be way harder to get started using a
> recent distribution...
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> > Then I found something about Alzabo, but that seems to be some sort of
> > plugin for god knows what.
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> IIRC, Alzabo basically _is_ an O/R mapper built in/for Perl. ;)
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> Cheers,
> Kris
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