Recommendation for a good entity relationship diagram building tool for occasional usage?

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Yordan Georgiev picture Yordan Georgiev · May 13, 2009 · Viewed 64.2k times · Source

Freeware is a plus. Could you also describe with one sentence why it should be good enough for occasional usage?

Edit: You might check this cool link , providing more info about entity relationship diagrams and tools

Edit: For the chosen answer couple of tips - click on entity even it looks like circle and type the name and Enter - it will give you the Entity box - Click on association , Ctrl + L would give you the nice line

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Fabio Vinicius Binder picture Fabio Vinicius Binder · May 13, 2009

You can use StarUML with the ER extension. It is totally free, stable and easy to learn.

Update: 09.10.2017: StarUML is not free anymore!

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