I have been playing around with Visual Studio 2010 over the past few days working with their SQL Template. I have to say…BOOOOOOOO…not working.
Now I have had more fun with xsd’s in Visual Studio’s C#. I expected database design to be that easy or better but no such luck. Are there any applications out there that you would recommend for the novice headed towards medium skill sets on DB design?
Or, is it just better to bite the bullet? Should I sketch it out or is there a better app to help with this?
I personally start my design using diagrams in SQL Management Studio. If you are concentrated on DB design it really does a good job. If you are more worried about class diagrams then Enterprise Architect is really good tool if you can afford it.