importing pgsql schema into visio (for diagramming)

On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 04:32:22PM -0700, Andrew Hammond wrote:

Does anyone know where I could find a tool which allows importing
schema information from a postgres database into visio? The boss
guys want some pretty pictures...

I'm pretty sure VisioPro has a way to attach to databases via ODBC
and/or .NET.

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On Sep 12, 2007, at 4:32 PM, Andrew Hammond wrote:

Does anyone know where I could find a tool which allows importing
schema information from a postgres database into visio? The boss
guys want some pretty pictures...

Visio has that built-in for a long time - point it at the database
via ODBC and let it go.

Cheers,
Steve

Helllo,

you can also look at Case Studio, this software have a nice reverse
engineering functionnality!

Good luck
Bruno Lavoie

Andrew Hammond a �crit :

On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 23:32:24 -0400
Bruno Lavoie <bruno.lavoie@gmail.com> wrote:

Helllo,

you can also look at Case Studio, this software have a nice reverse
engineering functionnality!

Good luck
Bruno Lavoie

Andrew Hammond a écrit :

Does anyone know where I could find a tool which allows importing
schema information from a postgres database into visio? The boss
guys want some pretty pictures...

dbvisualizer does a nice job reverse engineering schemas (assuming
the fk's are defined, NOT implied) :)

http://www.dbvis.com/products/dbvis/

Here's a sample:

http://www.smcing.com/images/pb_schema.jpg

Josh

On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 23:32:24 -0400
Bruno Lavoie <bruno.lavoie@gmail.com> wrote:

you can also look at Case Studio, this software have a nice reverse
engineering functionnality!

hear hear - great little tool

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Le jeudi 13 septembre 2007, Andrew Hammond a écrit :

Does anyone know where I could find a tool which allows importing schema
information from a postgres database into visio? The boss guys want some
pretty pictures...

Druid[1]http://druid.sourceforge.net/ is somewhat capable of delivering nice pictures out of an existing
database, though not on an automated way --- you have to import each table
one by one then sketch the schema out of this yourself, only linking of
tables is automatic. But the advantage not found on other tools is its
ability to create as much E/R views as needed, with whatever tables set on
them (same table on several E/R views is possible).

This allows for hand-crafting nice part picture to print, each one
corresponding to a logical part of the database instead of what was easy to
print out on some A4/letter pages.

For fully automatic processing, you can also try SchemaSpy[2]http://schemaspy.sourceforge.net/ which is ok for
online browsing the schema, but not so much for dead-tree form.

[1]: http://druid.sourceforge.net/
[2]: http://schemaspy.sourceforge.net/

Hope this helps, regards,
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dim

On Sep 12, 2007, at 7:32 PM, Andrew Hammond wrote:

Does anyone know where I could find a tool which allows importing
schema information from a postgres database into visio? The boss
guys want some pretty pictures...

See SQLFairy. it can generate pretty pictures directly from the
schemas. I also have some script somewhere that generates graphviz
output which makes optimal graphs.