Engineering Wizard

How do I start the database engineering wizard?

 

The engineering wizard consists (mainly) of the same steps regardless of whether you're forward or reverse-engineering:

 

1. Complete the Getting Started steps.

 

2. Specify the Direction you want to engineer: Forward or Reverse.
 

3. Specify the Visual Case Database that you want to forward-engineer or reverse-engineer into.  If you're reverse-engineering a database, you can create a new Visual Case database as part of this step.
 

4. Specify the location of your Physical Database.  Usually this will involve selecting your ODBC data source.  However, if you're engineering an Access database, you may specify the path to the mdb file.

 
Tell me more about engineering Access databases.
How do I set up an ODBC data source?
 

5. Specify any Formatting Options (such as case conversions) that you want to perform.  This step only applies to reverse-engineering.
 

6. Customize your engineer by reviewing the differences between the physical database and your Visual Case design and specifying which entities you want to engineer.
 

7. Save a copy of the Script File that will be used to make your changes.  This step applies to forward-engineering only.
 

8. Finish the engineer.

 

 

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