What is a good Visio Enterprise Architect replacement? [closed]

Answer 1

This functionality is only available in the "for Enterprise Architects"-edition of Visio. This edition is apparently not sold as a stand-alone product, but it is included in MSDN Premium.

See this article on Office Online: What happened to the Generate and Update commands on the Database menu?

Answer 2

Not free, but very good and simple to use: Dezign for Databases

Draw your model and then you can generate DDL for lots of different databases.

Answer 3

Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 has some pretty cool tools for data modeling, especially the ADO .Net Entity Data Model Tools. And yes, you can generate DDL from the models.

Answer 4

I got tired of hand-coding my DDL from Visio 2007 Diagrams, so I wrote a script to do it for me. I know it's not perfect. But, it works for me. You are welcome to try it out at aboutwhatever.net/posts/visio-2007-database-model-ddl-generation. If there is enough interest, I will look into expanding it's capabilities.

Answer 5

If you are referring to the Object Role Model diagrams, you can google for that, or for Terry Halpern.

I reverted to VisioModeler, which is available free (but unsupported) at

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyId=27fe6786-a439-4286-b8b6-7a9b84cfa709&displaylang=en

Answer 6

I recommend Sybase Power Designer

It's easy to use, intuitive, offers partial SQL DDL preview (for selected objects) and uses scripts for automation. The scripting feature is not very well documented, but after reading some of their sample scripts I was able to do what I wanted.