Re: A free tool like Erwin

Sabine Dinis Blochberger wrote:
The DBDesigner is too MySQL centric (it puts foreign keys into the
diagram) for me, the Toad is more true to the ERD standard, I suppose.

How is that MySQL-centric? Especially since in its marketplace, MySQL is the only product to offer an engine, MyISAM, that doesn't even support foreign keys. (Its other engines do support FKs; MyISAM is for tables that need performance at the expense of architecture and safety.)

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