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

[Jens R. Victorin]

OK! Sad... my primary concern is to find a free tool to model databases
effectively in unix/linux environments.

/Jens

On Thu, 2004-08-26 at 18:50, Jonathan Riddell wrote:
> 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