Recommendation for a good entity relationship diagram building tool for occasional usage? [closed]

Answer 1

Dbdesigner 4 at http://www.fabforce.net/dbdesigner4/downloads.php. It's free, easy to use, does reverse engineering.

Answer 2

Oracle Data Modeling - works with Oracle, MsSQL and DB2

MySQL Workbench - works with MySQL

Answer 3

Try Dezign for Databases. It's very easy to use (but powerful enough for most development tasks, supports a wide range of databases and finally the price (~245 $) is not that much. Personally I'm very happy with the tool.

Answer 4

I've said this in another answer but I have two more suggestions:

1) No-one seems to have mentioned the great tool which my uni recommends. Its a 620K download called ER-Assistant. Its basic plain black/white ERD's but some like that. Its free and uses Crows foot notation, but windows only. http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0072942207/student_view0/e_r_assistant.html

2) Also Lucid Charts is decent. Its free to use until you reach very complex diagrams. Its web based so obviously platform agnostic https://www.lucidchart.com

Answer 5

SQL Power Architect Community Edition at http://www.sqlpower.ca/page/architect_download_os. A friend of mine used it for a project and said it was easy, reasonably powerful, and free.

Answer 6

yEd is a powerful desktop application that can be used to quickly and effectively generate high-quality diagrams for free.

http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yed_about.html

MySQL Workbench is also excellent