Re: [gnome-db] Database Designer

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On Sun, 2003-07-06 at 02:40, Ian D. Stewart wrote:
> On Saturday 05 July 2003 17:47, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> > On Sat, 2003-07-05 at 16:27, Ian D. Stewart wrote:
> > > Are there any plans to incorporate a database designer (something akin to
> > > Computer Associate's ERwin) into Gnome-DB?
> >
> > yes, there are plans to do so in Mergeant. We don't know when that will
> > be, so if you want to help, that would speed things up a lot :-)
> 
> Well, I'll do what I can, but don't expect any miracles... ;)
> 
> The first thing I would like to see is a data dictionary, something where you 
> can specify things like data type, size, business definitions, etc, at the 
> data element level.
> 
> So I guess the first thing to do would be to get familiar with the GDA and 
> GnomeDB API's
> 
yes, have a look at it. What you want for the data dictionary is the
gda_connection_get_schema function. There are some docs about it in the
API doc in the web site.

cheers