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Enterprise Architect => General Board => Topic started by: Stephen on November 19, 2002, 02:11:41 pm

Title: ERD's from SQL Server
Post by: Stephen on November 19, 2002, 02:11:41 pm

I am looking at using EA for some basic documentation of an existing SQL Server database.

Can I connect EA to the database server to produce ERD's without having to manually enter all of the table and field information?

thanks

Title: Re: ERD's from SQL Server
Post by: jaimeglz on November 20, 2002, 07:43:43 am

Hi, Stephen.

The answer is yes!

Download EA's (free) trial version from sparx's web site (http://www.sparxsystems.com.au/), and take a look at "Reverse Engineer ODBC data sources" in the help topics.

In order to familiarize yourself with tips, tricks and issues on this, I would recommed to search this forum for references on "SQL Server", "ODBC" and "Reverse engineer".

Keep us posted if you run into any problem.

Jaime Gonzalez