Recent content by Domgrief

In terms of actual database design, I haven't had much luck there either I'm afraid. I'm not sure if it's possible at this stage to actually change an Oracle database. It suits my needs for Reverse Engineering a database to produce a pleasant-looking diagram, but I'm not sure it can do much...

If you're after a freely available way of connecting to an Oracle database, with a fairly small download, you could try Oracle Instant Client (clickie) . Oracle has basically designed this to be a small, easy to distribute client, which acts as a drop-in replacement for the massive Oracle...

Brilliant results on both counts - thanks for the tipoffs! I'm finding schemester to be a bit easier to work with, but dbd4 is producing nicer looking diagrams off the bat. Both packages have been really easy to use, and I can get a fairly professional-looking diagram out within minutes.

Wow, both this and DB Designer 4 (recommended by Didier, another reader of the thread) look like excellent tools for what I need. Especially for their price :) Thanks for the help both of you! I'll check these out and probably post another reply to let you know how the reverse engineering went.

Hi all, Not sure if it's appropriate to make the first post an off-topic one, but honestly PL/SQL Developer has been such a handy tool over the past months while I've been developing packages, that I don't have much in the way of a wishlist or bug report :) I've been using PL/SQL Dev quite...