So, with the database concerns and other architecture and security concerns, I pushed to do a re-design of the database and re-write of the web application.īesides this database, our other databases are small and/or not complicated. So, when I went looking for a data modeling tool to assist in visually designing and laying out related tables, I didn’t want to purchase an expensive tool, maybe some free tool or online service would do. I reviewed a few and the one I chose to try was SQL Database Modeler. I am not aware of any table (or entity) limitations, but after 21 tables I wanted to test the creation script and make sure everything would work before I got farther along. Well, the generated script would not completely execute due to foreign keys, certain tables need to be generated first. SqlDBM was in beta at the time, it may have had settings or configurations available to adjust this problem… but I set it aside and tried a few other tools. I then stumbled upon Toad Data Modeler (TDM). I had used Toad as a SQL coding tool back in the day with Volvo Commercial Finance because they were using Oracle database.

Quest offers TDM free for 30 days for evaluation.

I thought, great I will be done in that time. Anything you wanted to set up regarding your tables, keys, foreign keys, indexes, everything. To not lose what I build with SqlDBM, I removed all the foreign keys so the script could run and generate my tables.

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