Re: database table instance modeling in dia

[Andrew S Halper <ashalper acm org>]

On 2002.06.06 18:42 Neil Zanella wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I would like to use dia to draw database table instances, that is,
> nothing more than two dimensional tables with a title at the top,
> a name for each column, followed by the various table rows.
> I could not find any such functionality in dia. It would
> be nice if this diagramming capability were incorporated
> into dia. As an application, many database tables do not
> change in contents as they are used solely to enforce
> referential integrity constraints. People also use
> table instances to give examples such as those
> used to explain to database normalization.

Although probably not exactly what you're looking for, you can do it in 
UML as is demonstrated in the attached file.

Andy

example.dia