Designer 4 - 可視化數據庫設計系統

DBDesigner 4 是一個開源的可視化的數據庫設計系統，它將數據庫設計、建模，創建和維護過程集成到一個單一，無縫的環境中。它還為現有的MySQL, Oracle, MSSQL和任意ODBC數據庫等提供逆向工程支持，并從中抽取數據庫模型。

它擁有兩模式，設計模式和查詢模式。設計模式用于創建和維護其可視化數據庫模型。查詢模型可用于操作表格數據和構建復雜的SQL語句。在 DBDesigner 4中創建的模型以XML的形式存儲。



下載各種環境下的安裝包.

• DBDesigner4_Setup.exe (for Windows 2k/XP)
  Prefered download for most Windows users. A Setup Wizard will guide you through the installation process and can create shortcuts on your desktop and start menu. Includes all binaries and HTML documentation.
  
  
• DBDesigner4.X.X.XXX.tar.gz (for Linux)
  A compressed tar-file containing all binaries and the online documentation. You have to extract the files to your harddrive manually by executing
  tar xvzf DBDesigner4.X.X.XXX.tar.gz in your HOME directory. You have to run the startdbd script (./startdbd) to start DBDesigner4.
  
  To install DBDesigner4 for all users, extract the tar archive to /usr/local/bin directory (but please notice that you have to edit the startdbd script manually [see line 4]).
  
  
• DBDesigner4.*.zip (for Windows 2k/XP)
  Advanced users can download the Zip distributions. You have to extract the files to your harddrive manually e.g. using WinZip. Remember to activate the extraction of stored directory information.