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MrPotatoes
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Database Design Creator (GUI)

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i was hanging around on this site looking at the cart tutorial and i found this image:

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is there a free program to do that? i don't care fr browser based tech to do things like this but if you find it that way i don't care. i know it's not UML but i have seen it before and the name escapes me. does anyone on this fine site happen to know what i'm searching for or know of one off hand, free preferably :thumbup:
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Visio
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Any of the UML editors (visual) should be able to produce this sort of diagram.
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feyd wrote:Any of the UML editors (visual) should be able to produce this sort of diagram.
got any suggestions? (ahem... free suggestions)
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The Ninja Space Goat wrote:got any suggestions? (ahem... free suggestions)
Not offhand, sorry.
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Post by wtf »

mysql only
http://fabforce.net/dbdesigner4/

Wide variety of db (personal favourite)
http://www.minq.se/products/dbvis/

also worth checking out
http://www.sqlmanager.net/products/mysql/manager
http://www.aquafold.com/

one that I recently came accross but haven't had a time to play with
http://www.mentattech.com/themes/mentat ... index.html

check out the mysql code hinting :D
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i'm gonna check out fabforce tonight. that thing is pretty cool. i'd love to play with ming but i'm not gonna pay, bleh lol

thanx alot man. j00 r00l
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Post by Benjamin »

You can make flowcharts in Openoffice Draw. http://www.openoffice.org/product/draw.html
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You don't have to pay for minq.

"If you are planning to use DbVisualizer Free then just register below, download, install and launch the software."

http://www.minq.se/products/dbvis/download.html
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Post by MrPotatoes »

this is for proprietary (sp) software that i'm developing.

i want to use one because doing it all in my head is great and all, but slow.
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