E-R Design Capture for a Database.

Hi.
I am using oracle 8.1.7, and all the tables for my application is owned by a user
newscott.
Now I want to create E-R diagram for my application in other words reverse engineering.
which all tools I will need to do this.
and which steps I have to follow.
I will appreciate it very much for the
help provided .
sachin

Sachin,
The Design Editor is the place to start. Reverse engineer your tables into the Designer Repository. From there you can then do a table to entity retrofit. This is a simple one to one mapping and will require further manual work to arrive at the true logical data model.
David

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