Dear Friends , Last week I was doing Database Re-Engineering of our few Legacy Applications. Actually Re-engineering is a set of activities that are carried out to re-structure a Legacy System to a new system with better functionalities and conform to the hardware and software quality constraint. I tested 3 Tools for Data-Modeling for this process. (1) Toad Data Modeler 4.1 (2) Microsoft Visio and (3) SSMS 2008 . Data Modeling is a process used to define and analyze data requirements needed to support the business processes within the scope of corresponding information systems in organizations. All are the good software for Data-modeling but I liked all time favorite SQL Server Management Studio Relationship Diagrams simple-easy, free and having good options.. A little formatting in SSMS database diagrams editor As more tables will be added, these may not be arranged for easy viewing. To change the arrangement of the diagrams you can right click in the
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