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Do you know a free database modeling tool in uml?

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Here is a link to the SourceForge project for modeling UML / ERD databases:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/dbuml/

Here is the software having a free community version:

http://www.visual-paradigm.com/

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Personally, I have always found that UML does a poor job of designing databases. Entity-Relationship diagrams always better describe the database.

I would look at Open System Architect (OSA) at http://www.codebydesign.com/

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True, if you want to explicitly model everything (for example, pks or unique identifiers), you will need to use a UML profile. However, if you are satisfied with the use of certain conventions (for example, adding a surrogate pk for each table, removing automatically from fks from associations ...), you can even skip the profile. An example of this approach read this

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