How to reverse engineer an existing database using PowerDesigner 15

Today, I will talk to you about how to use PowerDesigner 15 to reverse engineer the existing database. Many people may not know much about it. In order to make you understand better, the editor has summarized the following contents for you. I hope you can get something according to this article.

1. Start PD

2. Menu: Database- > Congfigure Connections pop-up Congfigure Data Connections dialog box

We choose "system data Source" and the next step is:

For the data source driver, we choose Sql Server to proceed to the next step:

Click finish, and the new data source created to Sql Server pops up. In this dialog box, we enter the name, description, and server name or IP:

Next step: verify the login method, select "use user to enter SQL Server authentication of login ID and password", and enter login ID and password

Next step: change the default database to the one you want to work in reverse

Next step: finish

The data source we just created appears in the Congfigure Data Connections dialog box.

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