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Hi Matthew  and thanks. Yeah, it was the same version. It was easily cured by re-saving the files, but I just wondered if it was a known problem.  Cheers   Mike  

 Having had a hard disk failure and a machine swap, I have just copied my projects back and tried to open the ORM diagrams.  The error is: Cannot load ... Xml Schema validation of the .ORM file has failed.  They open just fine when holding down the shift key.  Is there a resolution? Cheers  Mike  

Hi Brian And thank you. I started with a simple but real world example at a conceptual level until I was happy. i then generated the schema but ended up with and extra table where the constraints were enforced. I'm still working through The Big Brown Book so a little thin on knowledge as yet. At that point I reverse engineered and ...

It's OK - I sussed it by reverse engineering a simple DB.  

How can I identify a field and a foreign key reference to be a unique constraint combination? TIA   Mike

Hi Ken Thank you - thou art a gent. I do most of my work on a lovely MAC with parallels for Win XP, so I have no problem with screen shots. I'll have a good look at the ppts later. Many thanks. Mike  

 Hi  I have just taken delivery of the big brown book and I am starting to work through it. I have recently started developing in VS 2008 (after Java and Netbeans) and dowloaded the requisite nORMa plug-in - but cannot seem to find any obvious way to start it from within VS 2008. Is there any getting ...

 Hi  I have just taken delivery of the big brown book and I am starting to work through it. I have recently started developing in VS 2008 (after Java and Netbeans) and dowloaded the requisite nORMa plug-in - but cannot seem to find any obvious way to start it from within VS 2008. Is there any getting started documentation.  It ...