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If you are working with Designer/2000, Oracle's powerful set of tools for information systems design and generation, this book will serve as your indispensable guide. Not only does it provide detailed and understandable documentation for every component of Designer/2000, it also shows how and when each of these tools comes into play in the context of the information systems development life-cycle. You will learn how these tools operate, how they should be used, and most importantly, how to adapt the information systems development process to take full advantage of their capabilities.The Oracle Designer/2000 Handbook inludes documentation for all of Designer/2000's strategy, analysis, design, and code-building tools, including the Process Modeller, the Entity-Relationship diagrammer, the Database Design Wizard, the Data Diagrammer, the application Design Wizard, and the DDL generator; an overview of the development process, with a work flow road map detailing the specific steps to take when building an application with Designer/2000; information on designing and generating forms and reports, including use of the Module Data Diagrammer, templates, and User Preferences; advice on how to customize the Designer/2000 toolset to improve your productivity; and an explanation of how to capture existing applications with Designer/2000.