When the ads came out, I was in Honduras on a terribly slow Internet connection, in the middle of a cafe, and I just didn’t want to sit there and wait forever for the video to buffer and then have to deal with the embarrassment of being the annoying guy in the Internet cafe who makes too much noise.  So I held off.

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Have you ever tried using Microsoft Visio for creating database diagrams? Im using it at the moment for a large web application project and I’ve got to say, I hope there’s a better solution out there. I understand that Visio is design for lots of different uses and not just database diagrams, but it really is difficult to get a useful database diagram out of the software.
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