You can use
an overview diagram from the Data Source Explorer to visualize
a connected database.
About this task
To open an
overview
diagram from the Data Source Explorer:
Procedure
- Expand
a connection. You can open a storage overview diagram from
a database or an Information Engineering (IE) or Unified Modeling
Language
(UML) notation overview diagram from any schema.
- Expand
the Diagrams folder and complete
one of the following steps:
- Double-click the
automatically generated diagram.
- Right-click the Diagrams folder
and click New
Overview Diagram.
- Type
a diagram name and select elements to include in the overview
diagram.
- Click OK.
Results
The diagram opens in the editor area. You can
modify the appearance
of the diagram in the Properties view, or add annotations to the diagram,
but these changes are not saved to the
Diagrams folder
after you close the diagram. You can save the results to an image
file or
print them, but you cannot save changes to the
Diagrams folder.