Using QDesigner

Everybody should be doing data modeling. Entity relationship diagrams (ERD) serve as the blueprints for your logical and physical database designs. Can you really imagine a contractor building your house without blueprints? How would you feel if the contractors just started nailing things together based upon their experience and intuition? Well, that’s how many databases are put together. It’s no wonder that their performance and ability to meet business requirements often fall far short of the desired goal.

QDesigner provides world-class ERD-based, physical data modeling. QDesigner can completely forward- and reverse-engineer database designs, with support for over 30 popular database platforms. QDesigner offers far more features ...

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