title: Import model from Oracle SQL Developer Data Modeler into Sparx Enterprise Architect
body: <p>I have an Oralce SQL Developer Data Modeler file (*.dmd) and wish to do some diagramming to integrate in an existing Sparx EA model.</p>
  
  <p>For context, I'm an overall solution designer who needs to reflect certain DB concepts in other diagrams, not part of the DB team which creates the model.</p>
  
  <p>From the situation described in the <a href="http://sparxsystems.com/forums/smf/index.php?topic=25665.0" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Sparx forums in 2014</a>, I would have to (without access to another Oracle DB instance containing a realization of the model):</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li>Create a Database from the .dmd (or exported .ddl) ... Oracle Express being the likely target</li>
  <li>Create an ODBC connection as local data source on Windows</li>
  <li>Import from that ODBC source in Sparx</li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>Presumably, refreshes would follow the same path.  I only intend to go in one direction with those updates.  That is, I do not plan to make model changes in Sparx for round-tripping back into the Oracle model.</p>
  
  <p>Is that still the only viable path to use a model from Data Modeler to Sparx?</p>