[NBLUG/talk] DIA

Dave Sisley dsisley at arczip.com
Thu Aug 21 10:01:02 PDT 2003


On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 09:28:29AM -0700, Eric Eisenhart wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 11:37:56PM -0700, Dave Sisley wrote:
> > My experience with DIA is very limited: I used it for creating ER
> > diagrams for the database class at SSU.  (All the other kids, with their
> > scribbly pencil diagrams, were green with envy, of course <smiley>).
> 
> I did something very similar, but using the UML syntax for database table
> relationships, and for other UML diagrams used while discussing how a
> particularly complicated process would function.  Use "dia2sql" (or was it
> dia2code --sql?) I was able to convert the UML diagrams of my database
> structure directly into SQL appropriate for creating the tables.  I still
> had to tweak the SQL a bit to put in the correct indexes on a few things,
> but it did the bulk of the work for me.  There's "dia2code" that can convert
> UML class diagrams into C++ or Java stubs.

I heard you could do this - turn your diagram into an actual database.

I didn't use this feature, as such dark and powerful magic is beyond me.

But man, that sounds so cool!

-dave.



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