Re: Database Modeller (Mac)

Peter De Berdt
Sat, 21 Apr 2007 15:40:19 -0000

On 21 Apr 2007, at 17:33, Barry Frost wrote:

> Can anyone recommend a database modelling tool for the Mac? I''m
> building a new Rails app and want an interface to draw out the
> database''s entity relationship diagram, setup foreign keys and
then
> output DDL at the end to MySQL.
>
> I''ve previously used DBDesigner, CASE Studio and some pricier
> enterprise software on Windows, but can''t find anything suitable
for
> my Mac. The MySQL Workbench project seems to have stalled and I
can''t
> find anything suitable.
>
> Any recommendations?

If you are happy with just creating diagrams and then using Rails
migrations to create your database scheme (from my point of view the
best thing to do anyway), you could use Omnigraffle.

There''s also DBVisualiser at
http://www.minq.se/products/dbvis/info.html


Best regards

Peter De Berdt