[thelist] Database Documentation

[Hans Fraser]

On Friday, February 21, 2003, at 01:29  PM, Ken Kogler wrote:
>> vaguely remember going through a formal scheme for visually
>> representing a database back in university but I don't have my notes
>> any more.
>
> You're talking about entity-relationship diagrams, commonly referred to
> as "ER diagrams".
>
> Google will unearth a world of help now that you know what to ask it
> for. :)
>
> I can't think of any decent cheap/free software that does them, though.
> I still do em with pencil and paper.

if you are familiar with uml !

there is ArgoUML Open-Source and pretty good!

http://argouml.tigris.org/

(personnally i would do it in uml!)

hans!