tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-497787815177352569.post7169470172355988779..comments2024-01-03T08:55:04.827-05:00Comments on SQL Anywhere: ER Diagrams in SQL Anywhere 16Breck Carterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15975598564711761434noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-497787815177352569.post-63996921120478258922016-06-02T03:31:24.681-04:002016-06-02T03:31:24.681-04:00You are correct. My article was too kind. The ER D...You are correct. My article was too kind. The ER Diagram tool in SQL Anywhere does not do any of the things you mention, nor does is provide better gas mileage, world peace or a solution to global warming.<br /><br />Seriously, you ARE correct. The real problem is, I should not be offering ANY opinion on ANY diagramming tool. Diagramming tools do not scale well which is why I do not use any of them. I use the Foxhound text-oriented schema display for existing client databases (which often have thousands of tables), and I use wordpad (!) and dbisql to develop database objects.<br /><br />I also don't use ER modelling, or OOP, or Facebook, and I don't watch "Girls", so you have permission to ignore everything I say :)Breck Carterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975598564711761434noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-497787815177352569.post-61488955186173423562016-06-02T00:08:57.102-04:002016-06-02T00:08:57.102-04:00It's still awful. Even in Sybase Central 16 I ...It's still awful. Even in Sybase Central 16 I can't do the most basic things like multi-select tables in the ER diagram, let alone auto-arrange in some way which is aesthetic.<br /><br />I can't zoom in or out to see the whole diagram, I cannot select a table and drag it further up the diagram, but can only move it around the visible screen area.<br /><br />It's an abysmal, and largely useless, ER diagram tool.Stuffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14124684890476391131noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-497787815177352569.post-48650631157823190802014-11-27T09:27:45.201-05:002014-11-27T09:27:45.201-05:00I have used many bloated CASE tools over the years...I have used many bloated CASE tools over the years (DesignAid, IEW, IEF, ERwin, PowerDesigner) and finally decided that diagrams do not scale well when dealing with large databases... it is too hard for developers to find the information they need. Text is better, where you can see at a glance what the parent and child tables are, and jump up and down in the relationship hierarchy with a single click. So, I now use these tools: Wordpad to enter CREATE TABLE statements, ISQL to compile the CREATE TABLE statements, and Foxhound's Schema Display to see what I've got.Breck Carterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975598564711761434noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-497787815177352569.post-34087198374425343432014-11-27T05:22:20.234-05:002014-11-27T05:22:20.234-05:00Well I got a question for you. You have well expla...Well I got a question for you. You have well explained this tutorial, but you have not mentioned any <a href="http://creately.com/ER-diagram-software" rel="nofollow">er diagram tool</a> to draw er tools. I know creately, do you use any platform independent diagramming tools?Evanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01134034541170679170noreply@blogger.com