Doesn Sun have like Microsoft Visio?

Question

I wonder if you database developer know if Sun has a program like Microsoft Visio for database. For those who do not know about it, it is a program where you can easily design your tables and relations between tables with GUI and nice graphic. Do you know any similar program from Sun or mySQL because I hate Microsoft?

Answer 1

Why disliking Microsoft has nothing to do with their
productsBut you said, or implied at least, that you didn't want to buy Visio because you hated Microsoft. So it does have something to do with their products.
Or perhaps you mean that you don't hate Microsoft because of their products? But my point is that not buying a good product because of a dislike of the company is unprofessional. You should make objective decisions when selecting a product and "I hate Microsoft" is far from objective.
; because it has to do with their attitude.They're a company. They don't have an attitude. They may have employees with attitudes, and they may have business practices that you dislike, but don't personify the company - it's the pathetic fallacy and it indicates muddled thinking.
Actually, I am a fan of some of their products.Fine. So you're cutting off your nose to spite your face?
Is the best product a winner in the market?For a certain value of "best", yes, by definition.
No, not
when it comes to application, which takes days or
weeks to learn from the scratch. You see the
background of choosing a program is much more complex
than being the best.When you select a product, you are at liberty to select the "best" where that means the product most fit in terms of cost, interoperability, license terms, ease of learning, feature coverage, and sophistication.
Choosing a program that is not the "best" is, well, stupid. Why choose a product that is an inferior match for your overall requirements?
I dislike Microsoft mostly because I despise the way
they act in the market.Microsoft act in the market by being the best at selling their products. They've also been found guilty of abusing a monopoly position. Big fat hairy deal. That doesn't make Sun all lovely and fluffy. Were you aware that they were partnering with Microsoft these days?
It's business. Get over it.
And I am so use to some of
their products that it isn't easy to change to
anything else no matter how good anything else is.You presumably mean vendor lock in here? Yes, "open systems" as they used to be known have some merits. But in the purchase of a database diagramming and drafting tool? I see very little value in it. Who cares if I'm locked into one product for some diagrams? Use the old tool for the old data model and buy a new tool for the next data model. If necessary regenerate a model from the database schema directly.
I haven�t the time to take that step.You're actually telling me that you don't want to use their products because they're so good you get addicted to them and you haven't got time to do the cold turkey? You're weird...
Anyway, back to the topic. I need to know if there is
an application out there which I can BOTH designing a
database AND have the DB with tables generated in the
background. Like many IDE where GUI is used and code
in the background is generated???See my original answer. You may also conceivably find that PostgreSQL 8.1 with the pgAdmin III tool would also be adequate for your purposes (I rarely use entity modelling tools unless the modelling diagrams need to go into formal documentation - if this is a "for personal use" project you probably don't need a Visio-alike tool).
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