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Reverse Engineer Databases in Visio 2013

Anonymous
2012-07-18T19:10:25+00:00

Hi,

is now the feature to reverse engineer databases completely gone in Visio 2013? I saw database design capabilities getting removed from version to version, now it's removed entirely? Or where do I find it? What's the database design/diagram story now from Microsoft?

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  1. Anonymous
    2013-09-08T13:02:54+00:00

    I think the question was: has reverse engineering been removed from Visio 2013? Not: is there reverse engineering available in Visual Studio?

    Is there any way to get a straight and practical answer in these fora? Business people use them to get pragmatic information on Microsoft products - not to observe petty nerdy one-upmanship.

    Does anyone know if the database reverse engineering functionality has been removed from Visio 2013? And, if so, can they please give a straight Yes/No answer? Thanks

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  2. Anonymous
    2013-09-09T06:18:53+00:00

    Yes, it has been completely removed (much to my dismay).

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  3. Anonymous
    2012-07-19T13:10:01+00:00

    Thomas,

    Like you, I was very disappointed in the v2013 support for database and uml.. These two add-ons were carry-overs from when Visio was purchased and were handled by the VS team, which 'deprecated' them. The VS team (afaik) has spent their time on things like the entity suite and trying to compete with Rational Rose. I'd check out the Entity Framework tools.

    al

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  4. Anonymous
    2012-07-19T08:14:09+00:00

    well, the only thing I found is the SQL Server Diagram tool which is a quite weak tool from my point of view... Or did I miss something?

    Thanks,

    Thomas

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  5. Anonymous
    2012-07-18T22:27:20+00:00

    It's in Visual Studio.

    al

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