[SOLVED] Freeware Database Design Software??

[severndigital]

Anyone know of a freeware db design software, kind of like the DB workflow stuff found in Visio?

 

thanks,

chris

[toplay]

I highly recommend that you spring for the $47 USD price tag of SQLyog Enterprise edition which now has a basic DB design/schema feature included. It's got tons of features in general. I was using phpmyadmin but SQLyog makes phpmyadmin seem like a toy program compared to it.

 

http://www.webyog.com/en/screenshots_sqlyog.php

 

Freeware:

 

DBDesigner 4 is great but it doesn't seem to have been updated in a long time and I think it still doesn't support MySQL v5+ yet:

http://www.fabforce.net/dbdesigner4/

 

ArgoUML is an open source UML modeling tool written in Java. You'll need to download and install the DB modeling tool. I don't particularly like this myself.

 

http://argouml.tigris.org

http://argouml-db.tigris.org

Also have SQL support: http://argouml-sql.tigris.org

 

 

[severndigital]

Nice .. thanks.

 

$50 isn't that bad, plus it has a trial. I'll give it a shot .. I just hate to pay $500 for software I will only use 10% of.

 

Visio is great, but i don't need all the bells and whistles.

 

Thanks again.

chris