Whether you are creating a new database application or need to manage an existing database, you would benefit from ModelRight 3. It will help you to visualize and manage the complexity of your database and create a solid database design.
If you have an existing database, ModelRight 3 can Reverse Engineer it to give you a graphical view of it. You can then use our Database Compare feature to display changes that you"ve made in your model and to push those changes to the database via ALTER s.
If you want to create a new database, you can create it graphically with ModelRight - and then automatically generate the necessary SQL DDL.
ModelRight 3 provides all features you expect in a mature database design product and more. It also adds functionality to support many of your database"s most advanced features. It is the answer when you need a database modeling tool that surpasses the “least common denominator” approach taken by others.
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General Features
Undo/Redo
unlimited or user-defined number of levels.
Copy/Paste and Drag/Drop
within or between models. Careful. You"ld be surprised how many other products either don"t have this or it doesn"t work as advertised.
Find
Find any in the model by its type, name or any other property. Search using regular expressions and other common search criteria.
Reporting
maximum reporting flexibility by using XSLT Templates to generate reports. Click on the icon on the right to view an actual generated report.
Impact Analysis
the transaction history shows the full impact of any change that you make as you make it. View, save or print this info or use it to roll back changes.
Scalable Printing
simply drag the page bounds to specify how much of your Diagram you want on each printed page.
Custom Print Dialog
lets you select specific pages to print and change the print scale
Self-Validating Foundation
Building on over 15 years of experience developing database design software, ModelRight has been written from scratch with a framework that offers significant design tool functionality and a solid foundation on which to provide current service and to move forward.
ActiveX/ing
used internally to generate the database schema, a ing interface (using any COM-based ing languages – like VB, Java in an HTML page, or any .NET language) provides transparent access to model s and properties for any purpose - like creating custom features. There"s no need for a proprietary API.
Model Explorer
an expandable/collapsible, categorized tree view of all your model s.
Mode-less
Our innovative mode-less style of interaction is simple and intuitive. Just click on an in either the Model Explorer or Diagram to edit its properties. No need to pop up dialog on top of dialog to make changes.
Hyperlinked Navigation
Like a Web browser, you can navigate to related s by clicking hyperlinks on property pages. Navigate backwards and forwards in the selection history using >the navigate back/forward controls.
Display Options
More display options than you can shake a stick at. Change font, color, 2D or 3D outlining, solid or gradient fill. Display table columns in Pk/non-Pk or generation order, Pk columns only or table comment. Display any child category (i.e. column, index, key, trigger, etc…) along with the table. Hide/display, expand/collapse the table display.
Diagram Navigator
gives you a bird’s eye view of your Diagram. The Diagram Navigator shows you a scaled down view of the current diagram so you can see exactly where you are within the overall Diagram. Move the red rectangle/navigator to quickly pan around the diagram. Scale it to quickly zoom in or out.
On-diagram Editing
create, delete, rename s right on the Diagram. For columns, you can also change datatype, domain, PK option, and null option right on the Diagram.
Misc. Graphics
add text, rectangles, images, lines, circles, etc… as a backdrop to or to add interest to your Diagram.
Multiple Notations
Barker, IE, and IDEF1X notations are all supported.
Auto Layout
an expandable/collapsible, categorized tree view of all your model s.
Domains
Domains are simply s that define properties that can be inherited by other s of that type. For example, a Diagram could inherit its background color from a Diagram Domain. If you change the background color of a Diagram Domain, all of the Diagrams and Diagram Domains that inherit that property would change. Many products define something akin to a Column Domain – so that a datatype can be consistently applied to a set of columns, but ModelRight extends this capability by introducing many more types of domains (Tables, Materialized Views, Relations, Columns, Indexes, Diagrams, Tablespaces, Graphics, etc..).
Relations
display, edit, and generate many types of relations - table relations, view relations, “select from” relations, and REF relations.
Compare with Model
compare models to see their differences and exchange information.
Naming
naming options let you specify how to handle non-unique name conflicts, max name lengths, case sensitivity and special characters.
Model Subsets
organize your tables and/or views into different subsets for display or other purposes.
Key Migration
specify whether you would like to migrate the columns of a key (alternate or primary), define which columns to migrate manually, or specify no migration.
Unification
migrated columns are unified in the child table with other columns that have the same name.
Rolenaming
By default, a migrated column has the same name as it has in the parent column. This is maintained automatically. So if the parent column name changes, the child column will also. With rolenaming, you can specify that a migrated column should have a different name than it does in the parent table.
User-defined Properties
create your own properties and associate them with different types of model s.
Model Validation
run an interactive report to show invalid and incomplete model s. Click on the report items to correct the issue.
Incomplete s
s that have not been fully specified are colored red in the Model Explorer for quick identification. Display a message box or run Model Validation to see why.
Alias Types
define your own datatypes as an alias for a built-in datatype
Database
Schema Generation
ModelRight makes the schema generation process completely transparent and user-extensible. VB s (or any COM enabled program) access the model’s s and properties to generate the database schema. Use the s we provide or overwrite them at the table, model, or cross-model level.
Reverse Engineering
connects directly to using a native driver. Filter by schema, storage, type and expression to pick exactly what you want from your database.
Database Compare
You can compare your model with the current database to update the database with an ALTER or to update your model from the database.
Modeless Database Compare
shows you a comparison of your Model with the Database as you Model. Keep it open as you model and changes made to the Model will be automatically reflected in the Database Compare window - so you can always have a view of how your Model differs from the database. You can import or export differences without having to restart the compare process.
Oracle support - 8i, 9i, 10g and 11g
ModelRight supports the usual database s like Table, View, Index, Constraint (PK, FK, UK) and Oracle specific features like, Materialized Views, Tablespaces, Clusters, Sequences, Packages, Procedures, Functions, Triggers, Synonyms, Schemas, Index-organized tables, Table and Index (Local and Global) Partitions, LOB storage options, REF columns, Function-based indexes, etc…
SQL Server – 2000, 2005 and 2008
provides in-depth support - including many SQL Server-specific features like Fulltext Indexes, Filestreams, Computed Columns, Partitioning, etc..
MySQL support - 5.x and 6
ModelRight supports the usual database s like Table, View, Index, Constraint (PK, FK, UK) - plus MySQL specific features like Collations, Character Sets, Engines, Logfile Groups, Databases, Tablespaces, Datafiles, and many MySQL-specific properties.
ODBC
if you need to connect to a database that is not explicitly supported, you can use the ODBC database. ModelRight 3 can Reverse Engineer, Forward Engineer, and Synchronize with any ODBC compliant database. While ODBC support does not have the in-depth support for physical details, it does support basic s like Schemas, Tables, Views, Columns, Indexes, Key and Foreign Key Constraints and all the database functions (Reverse/Forward Engineer and Compare/Alter).
-Relational (Oracle only)
create new Types, attributes, tables, views, etc…
Views (and Oracle Materialized Views)
keeps the view up to date even when the referenced s change. Changes made to the underlying s are automatically reflected in the View definition.
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