Modifying a Database Model

Visio Professional provides extensive options for working with the tables, columns, views, and relationships in a database model diagram. You can define and edit settings for data types, referential integrity, indexes, and extended attributes, and see your changes reflected in the shapes on the page.

Visio displays detailed information about the database shapes in the Database Properties window, as Figure 19-13 shows. To display this window, right-click a shape, and then choose Database Properties.

For convenience while editing the diagram, drag the Database Properties window by its title bar into the Output window to merge the windows at the bottom of the screen.

Figure 19-13. For convenience while editing the diagram, drag the Database Properties window by its title bar into the Output ...

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