database designer

[Kevin Brown]

> I'd like a program to aid me in creating databases.  I know
> DBDesigner4 (http://www.fabforce.net/dbdesigner4/) was very good, but
> I can't seem to get it running on Ubuntu (and it's not a debian
> package either).  I'm current;y using OpenOffice 2.  Any suggestions
> or recommendations? Thanks.

phpmyadmin is one tool.

but if you really want dbdesigner, then it helps to see some of the 
errors you are getting...