>Steve,
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>As another tool candidate look at Visio Professional Version which can do several database design formats and can also to UML for your class diagrams.
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>>Does anyone know of a simple ERD tool that would help me do data models? Something cheap or free and basic? I'm learning on my own with books and practice projects. Have Visual Studio 6 Ent. I'm new to this so its all about the concepts for me at this point and I'm attempting to work out data models for 2 projects. The database designer tool in VFP is cool but its a little more advanced than I need at the moment.
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>>Hewlett Packard has a software tool package called DOME that has a nice data flow modeler. I'm looking for something comparable for er diagrams. Any ideas? Thanks

David,

Could you sum up a bit the UML capabilities of Visio professional? Rational Rose has its defensors and detratactors. Sure it's high priced. And Visio is at a bargain compared to it. So my inclination would be toward Visio if it can really help. I visited their site and did not find many explanations of what it could really do for me. I also use xCase, so I already have an excellent solution for the ERD part of the job.

José