[Nanny Tutorial] Use PowerDesigner to export the database table structure as a Word/Excel table

Use PowerDesigner to export the table structure to a word form

1. Download and install PowerDesigner (installed skip)

After the PowerDesigner download address,




just next>>next>>finish

Copy the files in the track directory to the installation directory, and replace the source files (this step is not necessary)

2. Create a module and configure a database connection

1. File -> New Model

Select Physical Data, the database is selected according to your own database type, here I am using MySQL

2. Configure the database connection

Note: The premise of using JDBC connection with PowerDesigner is that the 32-bit version of JDK must be installed locally

3. Test connection, possible errors and solutions

1. Could not Initialize JavaVM!

The 32-bit JDK environment is not installed on this machine, or the JDK environment variable is not configured, which can java-versionbe

Note: After modifying the environment variables, you need to restart the computer to take effect

3. Reverse engineering, import database table structure

1. File->Reverse Engeneer->DataBase

Select the database type according to your needs, here I am using MySQL

2. Select data source

Select the connection configuration we just created (if you haven’t created a configuration before, you can also configure it here)

Enter username and password, click connect

After selecting the database connection, click OK

3. Select the database table to export

By default, all tables are selected

4. Click OK

4. Report configuration and export

1. Report->Reports->New Report

2. Select Chinese, select standard template

3.Report items configuration

Right mouse button, click the list of table columns, configure Layout

1. Check the attributes to be exported

   Name The field name of the database table, such as id

   DataType is the data type of the table field, such as bigint

   Length is the length of the table field, such as 128

   Mandatory indicates whether it is necessary, that is, non-empty, such as True

   Comment is a table field comment, such as id is a primary key field

2. Set the column width of the table corresponding to the attribute, and the unit can be mm or %

3. Adjust the order in which attributes are listed in the exported table (from left to right)

4. click OK

After the setting is complete, you can click Print, Preview or Export.

The second button is preview, the third button is print, the fourth button is export html file, and the fifth button is export rtf file. After exporting the rtf file, it can be used word open, convert to doc/docx file