I recently stumbled across a pretty useful tool for mysql DB design.  It’s called DBDesigner 4 by fabFORCE.  I’ve found it to be a pretty useful tool for visually designing my databases, establishing relationships within said databases, and exporting the SQL.

Now I am aware that there is a successor to DBDesigner 4 by Sun Microsystems called MySQL Workbench, but I have yet to give it a shot.  Perhaps in the coming days I’ll give that a try and update this post.  For the time being, I thought I would share this tool with the world.