Change Schema Generation Options (Forward Engineering)
At any time, you can change the schema generation options and can generate the correct SQL statements.
Follow these steps:
- On the Actions tab, click Schema.
The Forward Engineer Schema Generation Wizard opens.
- Click the Option Selection tab.
- Select an Option Set or click Open to use an option set you saved as an XML file.
Your selections are applied to the schema generation options.
- Click the Summary tab to view schema generation options based on the selected option set.
- Click Edit Options to change the selected schema generation options.
- Click the Preview tab and view the schema DDL script.
- Click Generate to start the schema generation process for forward engineering or alter script generation or click OK to save the changes and close the dialog.
Generate the Schema (Forward Engineering)
When you generate the schema, you can connect to the target server and can generate the schema. When you generate a script, you can save it as a text file or can load it into a utility that interprets SQL scripts.
Follow these steps:
- After you select the schema generation options, choose any of the following options:
- To view the generated script, click Preview.
- To save the script, click Report.
- To filter the number of tables for which you want to generate the schema, click Filter.
- To print a copy of the script, click Print.
- Click Generate to open the <Database> Connection dialog and log on to the target server.
The SQL queries in the schema are executed in the database.
- Use one of the following options in the Generate Database Schema dialog:
- Save Data
Saves the message log to a file.
Prints the message log.
- Find
Searches the message log.
- Click OK.
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