Tuesday, April 5, 2011

how to forward engineer database diagram from visio 2003 file ?

I came across some vb macros that export it to a mdb ( ms access ) file. But does not work very well when copying forward constraints , etc.

I want generate schema from the database diagram for sql server 2005 database.

From stackoverflow
  • (For Visio 2007, as that's what I have to hand, although I remember that 2003 was very similar)

    From the Database menu, select "Options" > "Drivers...", and change the default driver to suit.

    dotnetcoder : i thought this only work for reverse engineering database schema ?
    Rowland Shaw : I tried it on my box before posting, and it certainly changes the available datatypes to suit nvarchar(max), etc. I strongly suspect that it wouldn't change existing values though
  • Forward Engineering is supported only in "Enterprise Architect" versions of Visio

    Lenin Raj Rajasekaran : http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/visio/FX102144891033.aspx

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