[Uml-devel] (forw) Modelling a database using Umbrello

[Jonathan Riddell]

On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 05:33:07PM +0200, Sebastian Stein wrote:

> I'd like to create and maintain a database model of a relation
> database using a linuxbased tool. I'd like to model tables and
> create relations between tables using primary keys, foreign keys
> etc. and eventually press the "generate" button to create the
> database.

> Umbrello seems to have almost everything necessary. I've been
> experimenting with it but can not bend it quite to my needs. I've
> googled and searched your mailarchives but not found anything
> obvious regarding Umbrello and db models. Do you have any info,
> comments, links or suggestions regarding this that you could share
> with me?

Umbrello is a UML tool and UML is object orientated, databases are
relational.  They are very different data models.  There is a wishlist
item for relational support in Umbrello but it's not likely to happen
very soon.

However we have an SQL code generator which generates database table
SQL from class diagrams but I'm not sure of the rules it follows.

Jonathan Riddell