Did you know that Data Modeler allows you to share tables from another design? And updates them automatically?

If you did not know here’s a short note about it.

Open both designs in Data Modeler.

Open the relational diagram where you want to bring the table from the other design. Select the table from Browser and drag-and-drop it to the relational diagram. And here it is.

If you want it to be updated automatically (if somebody adds new columns etc on the original design) go to Tools, Preferences and select Data Modeler, Model, Relational. Enable Synchronize Remote Objects When Model Is Loaded.

If you prefer to update manually right-clicking the relational model in Browser and select Synchronize Remote Objects.

Version 4.0.2 (4.0.2.840) came out on May 5th. I was told there is a lot of new things and bug fixes but now after using it for a while I am amazed! All the bugs I reported on 4.0.1 (!) have been fixed. All of them! And I did not report them immidiatelly when 4.0.1 was out… The team in Oracle is just great!

BTW did you notice that in 4.0.2 you can also change the box-in-box presentation on a fly just by right clicking on the logical model and selecting Notation?