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GNU Ferret

GNU Ferret (formerly known as GerWin) is a free entity relationship and reverse engineering tool. It aids you in creating data models and implementing them in a relational database. You can draw your data model via an entity-relation diagram, generate the tables from it (another graphical diagram), and then generate the SQL that creates such relational tables. Several SQL dialects are supported (for most popular free software database systems) and it is very easy to patch the sources to support more.

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  •  11 Nov 2003 07:23

Release Notes: This release adds the attribute option "del/edit", which leads you to edit a previously inserted attribute, and a new painting algorithm for the Table Diagram to support loops on key migration. The labels with the migrated attributes are now movable. GerWin now generates good SQL to support foreign keys, grouping all the attributes migrated from an referred table in one ADD FOREIGN KEY sentence. This applies for the output formats SQL92, POSTGRESQL, and MYSQL. There's been yet another file format change; to upgrade your existing (0.5) .ger files, read FILE_MIGRATION-0.5-to-0.6.

  •  10 Jul 2003 19:47

Release Notes: Improvements include a more rational interface and support for generating various output formats on the same session. Now output consist of the three built-in SQL dialects (sql92, PostgreSQL, and MySQL) and GerwinML, an XML language to express the table diagram. A DTD for GerwinML is included in the gerwinml/ directory. Now the several output formats are RE-driven colored. Another file format change has also been made. To upgrade your existing .ger file from 0.2 version, just delete the sql-file line from it (that is, the line number 3).

  •  08 Jul 2003 04:40

Release Notes: This version includes improvements of the generated SQL. Now it is directly usable with several DB managers.

  •  07 Jul 2003 16:33

No changes have been submitted for this release.

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26 Mar 2007 07:35 jemarch

Re: comments...

>
> % any useful feedback is highly
> % appreciated! :)
>
>
> I would love to see this application in
> a more user friendly form - such as GTK
> or wxWidgets or anything..:)

Hello!

Goto www.gnu.org/software/f... (www.gnu.org/software/f...)
to find some screenshots of the new diagram engine :)

23 Feb 2007 08:26 drakazz

Re: comments...

> any useful feedback is highly

> appreciated! :)

I would love to see this application in a more user friendly form - such as GTK or wxWidgets or anything..:)

14 Jul 2003 07:36 jemarch

comments...
any useful feedback is highly appreciated! :)

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