From The Database Geek

I like playing with new tools and software so I thought I would start a new weekly series, Cool Tool of the Week. I will just cover a tool that I have used or discovered that I think is cool. I’m not necessarily endoring it, just giving it a little publicity so that others will know about it and can give it a try.

This week is the open source data modeling tool Open ModelSphere. This Open Source project is available for windows with a GPL license. It was originally known as SilverRun. I used this windows-based CASE tool when I was at Yale.

I know I said “A day with Ralph Kimball, Part 2″ would be next but I wanted to get this tech note out there while it was fresh in my mind. I’ll post items like this periodically as they occur to me to do so.

I upgraded our Oracle Designer repository from 9i to 10g. It looks like the little things that annoyed me in 9i will continue to do so in 10g, at least in the short term. I don’t see any dramatic changes and my problem child ERD still can’t be transformed to tables.