exporting to erwin

[Andrefern]

hi,

I'd like to export data models to Erwin. Should I check some options in Export dialog in order to acomplish this?
My Erwin version is old (2002 - 4.1) and my EA version is 6.0. Is it possible?

[thomaskilian]

You are the first one to ask for that (as far as I remember). What formats does Erwin accept? I guess that it will not work since Erwin is pure data modelling tool with not much UML-touch. You could obviously go through DDL export, but I'm not sure whether that will make you so happy

[Andrefern]

The problem is: my DBAs. They work just with Erwin

[Dave_Bullet]

I know this doesn't help.... but you need to convert them to EA.  Try and sell them the benefits of an integrated modeling tool.  Would they like links to the servers / nodes their databases are deployed on?  Would they like to see application data access layers and know how their databases are being used by applications?

I admit I don't know if EA supports as much database functionality as ER/Win (ie. triggers, check constraints, views etc...) but many organisations I've come across use a modeling tool for reverse engineering purposes mainly - never to fully recreate a database from scratch.

Convert them - the whole organisation will benefit.

Cheers,
David.

[thomaskilian]

In general I have to agree with Daivd. However, Erwin can do much more in respect to database modelling than EA can. The DBA's would not like to move away from Erwin. Maybe Sparx could investigate whether there is a market for integrating Erwin (and other DB modelling tools)?

[sargasso]

generate a desktop db from EA and suck it into erWin  
bruce