[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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