Visually designing a database structure

Question

I am quite happy to code out tables by hand when making a database but it\'s not the easiest way to convey information about a database to someone else, especially someone that\

Answer 1

I'm currently checking out SQL Power Architect (both w/ PostgreSQL and Mysql - but it also supports other vendors) and it definitely seems promising. Does both forward and backward SQL engineering. The Community Edition is open source and cross platform (Java). You can check it out yourself: http://code.google.com/p/power-architect/

When strictly dealing w/ MySQL so far I've otherwise used MySQL Workbench, http://wb.mysql.com/ which performed reliably.