About:
DbDesigner is a useful tool for constructing databases in an intuitive and easy-to-use environment, where you have a visual representation of the tables and relations contained in your project. You can quickly see the fields in a table or how each table relates to the others. After you are finished, it can export the schema of the database into an .sql script, or directly connect to a database backend and build it there. It can also import already existing databases from .sql scripts or db backends. It can save your project into its native format (XML) so all information is kept, and it has a plugin architecture to be easily extensible to work with many database servers (it comes with 2 plugins for PostgreSQL and MySQL).

Release focus: Major feature enhancements

Changes:
Several bugfixes, new sequences and views (not SQL views), the plugin architecture is almost ready, and type-checking for relations.

Author:
Mihnea Balta [contact developer]

Rating:	reset 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
8.42/10.00 (5 votes)

Homepage:
http://dbdesigner.sourceforge.net/
Tar/GZ:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/dbdesigner/dbdesigner-p2.tar.gz
Changelog:
http://dbdesigner.sourceforge.net/changelog.txt
CVS tree (cvsweb):
http://dbdesigner.cvs.sourceforge.net/dbdesigner/

Trove categories: [change]

[Development Status]		3 - Alpha
[Environment]		X11 Applications :: KDE
[Intended Audience]		Developers
[License]		OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL)
[Operating System]		POSIX :: Linux
[Programming Language]		C++
[Topic]		Database :: Front-Ends, Software Development :: Code Generators

Dependencies: [change]
No dependencies filed

 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Default	p2	14-Jun-2001	GNU General Public License (GPL)

 Releases

Version	Focus	Date
p2	Major feature enhancements	14-Jun-2001 04:35
p1	Initial freshmeat announcement	22-May-2001 07:22

 Comments

[»] Very useful
by Tim - Dec 6th 2004 12:25:25

This is a great tool. The UI is a little clunky at times and I have had a weird error here or there but it mostly works great. The database synchronization stuff is invaluable and the ability to save your actual model in your database (so you can open it from anywhere, and track old versions) is genius.

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[»] fine but
by os2 - Nov 25th 2002 17:24:22

that could be great if u can create a rpm or use a more recent qt lib...
because i tried to install on many distribution and i got this error

checking for Qt... configure: error: Qt (>= Qt 2.2.2) (headers and libraries) not found. Please check your installation!
For more details about this problem, look at the end of config.log.

--
Borland rulez http://pages.infinit.net/borland

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[»] A much needed app
by Michael T. Babcock - Jul 2nd 2001 15:14:54

I've been looking for something like this for over
a year. Had I the time, I would have started one
shortly. Hopefully this project continues on and
more database designers like myself are willing to
test and debug the code.

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