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Database design tools for IBM DB2
List of tools that allow for the design of a database.
Database design is a set of activities aimed at improving the development, implementation, and maintenance of an enterprise data management system. Its main goal is to reflect the outline of the database system into real models: physical and logical. Database designers determine what data is to be stored inside the database, and how objects are to be related to each other.
dbDiffo
dbDiffo is a free online database schema designer and provides unlimited tables and projects creation services.
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DTM Data Modeler
DTM Data Modeler is an easy-to-use tool allowing you to work both with logical and physical data models in the form of an entity-relationship diagram. The program can create database schema objects directly in the database and can create SQL scripts corresponding to the model taking into account the specified settings.
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DatabaseSpy
Altova DatabaseSpy is the unique multi-database query, design, and database comparison tool that even generates elegant charts directly from query results.
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Xcase
Xcase is a complete database design tool engineered to help you accomplish all your database-related tasks – from database design to modeling to daily modifications – with greater speed, higher quality, and better adherence to best practices.
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AnySQL Maestro
AnySQL Maestro is the premier multi-purpose admin tool for database management, control and development.
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DB2 Maestro
DB2 Maestro is the premier DB2 admin tool for database management, control, and development. Its key features include support for all DB2 versions from 8.x to 9.x, easy database object management, database designer, comfortable access to DB2 security features, data management (editing, grouping, sorting, and filtering abilities), handy SQL editor, and many more.
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RISE
RISE is a software suite for model driven information system development, packed with features and functions needed to build your information model and to turn it into a complete information management solution. You can generate your entire information solution including database, web services, and documentation.
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Oracle SQL Developer Data Modeler
Oracle SQL Developer Data Modeler is a free graphical tool that enhances productivity and simplifies data modeling tasks. Using Oracle SQL Developer Data Modeler you can create, browse and edit, logical, relational, physical, multi-dimensional, and data type models.
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Visible Analyst
Visible Analyst is a affordable graphical planning, analysis, and design tool that enables enterprises to build complex client/server applications and databases.
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DB-Main (discontinued)
DB-Main is an easy-to-use data modelling and data architecture platform. It is a generic CASE tool dedicated to database applications engineering, and in particular to database design, reverse engineering, re-engineering, integration, maintenance, and evolution.
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ModelRight
ModelRight is a database design and data modeling tool. It is used by data modelers, database developers, and database architects to create, visualize, and document their databases as an Entity Relationship Diagram (ERD).
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ModelSphere
Open ModelSphere is a complete data modeling tool covering conceptual, logical, and physical modeling. With its reverse engineering functionality, it allows graphical visualization of your relational database's architecture, thus making modifications easy. Open ModelSphere allows the generation of SQL scripts to create a database from your model as well.
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WinA&D
WinA&D is a comprehensive tool for system analysis, requirements management, structured analysis and design, object-oriented modeling with UML, and data modeling of information systems.
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SQL Power Architect
SQL Power Architect data modeling tool has many unique features geared specifically for the data warehouse architect. It allows users to reverse-engineer existing databases, perform data profiling on source databases and auto-generate ETL metadata.
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ERD Concepts
ERD Concepts is a database designer and SQL query tool for all major databases. It helps to create a professional and visual attractive Entity Relationship Diagram with domains, tables, foreign keys, views, stored procedures, and more. Your base ERD design is alternatively used to generate DDL scripts to create the actual database.
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The database design process can be very complicated. The more complex the system, the more sophisticated the tool is needed. Their functionality can vary greatly, however, core features include:
• creating and editing database objects,
• database architecture modeling,
• visualization of a database schema,
• tracking relationships between entities,
• grouping logically related objects into clusters,
• diagrams overview.
Database designer tools enable building graphical models and generating DDL scripts on their basis. The script describes data and relations between entities in the designed database. Furthermore, the tools enable reverse engineering (visualization of the model from the SQL script).
Key factors of creating a reliable and well-organized database are:
• a properly designed data structure,
• establishing what data should be stored in particular objects,
• how objects should be related to each other.
All of them can be improved by using the relevant Database design tool. Additionally, some of them allow the visual representation of data using ERD, makes it easier to visualize even more complex schemas.
Without proper software, development is based on raw code. This increases the risk of errors at the initial stage. The tools allow users to edit the visual layout using simple drag-and-drop functions. With a user-friendly interface, browsing the structure is possible even for non-IT people.
We have created a list of tools that support the process of creating database structure and its content. Our list includes free database design tools as well as advanced, more professional data management tools.