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September 13th, 2004, 01:46 PM

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Looking for recommendations on tools for working w/ DB2; on the order of Toad for Oracle, for instance. Please let me know what you're using and why... thanks

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September 13th, 2004, 03:50 PM

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We are using Quest because that is what our DBAs wanted.

us developers like it as well.

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September 13th, 2004, 11:35 PM

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We use Quest Spotlight too. It's very nice (but client is Windoze only) for viewing an active database and making sense of snapshot data.

September 14th, 2004, 08:59 AM

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fractal, are you using Quest Spotlight? The documentation says that's mainly a diagnostic tool, correct? Or am I mistaken?

I think I'm looking more for something like the MySQL control center; something developers can use to mock up databases, maybe even a tool w/ a tool that allows a user to draw the database relationships, and creates the DDL from those schematics.

September 14th, 2004, 04:20 PM

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Anyone recommend Erwin?
http://www3.ca.com/Solutions/Product.asp?ID=260

September 15th, 2004, 02:11 PM

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We are using Quest Central. 99% of the time I just use it to look up table structures, but you can also run sql scripts,view/edit data,and I think even build stored procedures.

Much faster and less memory-intensive than the db2 control center.

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