Re: Separate EER's or use layers???

[Mike Lischke]

Hey Michael,

distributing your tables over several diagrams has the advantage that you don't have too many objects on one diagram, which in turns speeds up handling/rendering and also supports a better view on your objects. If you have 100 or more tables on a diagram you will find yourself frequently zooming in and out either having only a small part of your diagram in view to work on details or you cannot really see what's going on from the bird's eye view.

Layers in turn are normal design objects like tables, procedure groups etc. Layers are primarily used to visually separate a part of your model, which belongs semantically together in a certain sense. So they give you a design tool at hand that helps to better layout the objects in a diagram.

Mike

Mike Lischke, MySQL Developer Tools
Oracle Corporation

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