Not to worry, Val - I've known you for enough years to understand. We're focusing on some of the physical modeling right now (want to improve what we have) and will be looking at the logical models a little later. Just have to take things in order... You'll see a number of enterprise-level improvements in Whidbey (especially around Whitehorse - the are a number of blog entries on it at http://blogs.msdn.com) and while there will be a lot of data usage improvements in Whidbey, look for the modeling improvements to come in a later version. Just to set expectations. We're all tap dancing as fast as we can... <g>

yag

>Alan,
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>My comments came across as negative and they aren't meant to. <s> This is an area where Microsoft is weak but they clearly have the technical prowess to create an integrated modelling tool that addresses the complexities of database development, including logical, physical and process models.
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>Good luck with it.
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>- Val
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>>yag