Database Engineering Tool |
Our database engineering tool allows you to create physical databases from your Visual Case project and vice-versa. The engineering wizard is simple and easy to use. In addition to the databases that we support, our engineer will work with most ODBC-compliant databases.
The forward-engineering tool builds a physical (actual) database from your Visual Case project. If some of the database objects already exist in your physical database, the engineering tool will check for difference between the physical database and your design and will automatically make only the required changes. Unless it's necessary, the engineering tool changes the physical database without losing any data. As part of the engineering process you will be informed as to what changes are about to be made to your physical database. However, you are responsible for taking adequate backups of your data before you apply your design changes.
The reverse-engineering tool builds a Visual Case project from a physical database. The tool will easily allow you to create documentation of existing databases. If you need to convert a legacy database, use the reverse-engineering tool: it will create the Visual Case project and convert the database to any of our supported database types. Then you can make any required design changes and forward-engineer to your new platform.
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