PD is a good database design tool. We directly use forward engineering during project development. After designing the database, we reversely import the database into PD and add comments to the database fields in PD to facilitate newcomers ’understanding and learning. PD supports Oracle, SqlServer and other databases and is a very powerful database design tool.
SQLServer reverse engineering, first need to establish a database connection, and then reverse engineering operations.
Open the "DataBase" menu and select "Configure Connections ...", as shown in Figure 2 below:
The "Configure Data Connections" window pops up, as shown in Figure 3 below:
Select the system data source, as shown below:
After the completion, the database binding has been completed, but the data content at this time has not been imported. We need to perform the following steps
Select File → Reverser Engineer → Database, as shown below:
Select Using a data source, and then click the icon behind to
select our database and enter the password.
When you are finished, click OK.
At this time, the form of the database will be displayed. Click OK to start the reverse import.
Reverse
import is completed.
Click after the import is complete Click on a table to
find more content as shown in the figure, click to
find commnet and check
After the completion, we can add Chinese comments to
the comment. After adding Chinese comments, the newcomer can view the database directly to the newcomer, which is convenient for quickly viewing the meaning of the table fields of the database. Meaning PD is a very powerful database design tool
