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If you need to build complex SQL databases you will find DbDesigner quite a
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useful tool. It allows you to construct your DB in an intuitive and easy to use
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environment, where you have a visual representation of the tables and relations
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contained in your project. You can quickly see the fields in a table or how
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each table relates to the others. After you are finished, DbDesigner can export
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the schema of the database into an .sql script, or directly connect to a
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database backend and build it there. It can also import already existing
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databases from .sql scripts or db backends. Of course, it can save your project
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into its native format (XML) so all information is kept (for example you can't
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save the positions of the tables in the workspace into an .sql script). Due to
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its plugin architecture, DbDesigner is easily extensible to work with many
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database servers. By default it comes with 2 plugins: one for PostgreSQL and
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the other for MySQL. On the other hand, if you are building complex databases
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you might have already seen products like this one.
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WWW: http://dbdesigner.sourceforge.net/
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- Anders Nordby <anders@FreeBSD.org>
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