The following sections give detailed information about the various options that you can use to control reverse engineering.
Reverse Engineering Options Tab
When you reverse engineer a database schema using script files or a data source, you can define rebuild options after reverse engineering.
Reverse Engineering Target Models Tab
External shortcuts depend on their corresponding target objects located in different models. When you need several models to design a single database, you can use shortcuts to share objects between models.
Database Reverse Engineering Selection Window
When you reverse engineer a database from a live database connection, you can choose to generate a PDM for all, or just selected objects. You make this selection in the Database Reverse Engineering Selection window:
Reverse Engineering a Microsoft Access 97 Database
PowerDesigner and MS Access 97 use .DAT files to exchange information. These files are reversed into the PDM. The access.mdb database uses or creates .DAT files to reverse Access databases.
Optimizing Live Database Reverse Engineering Queries
Live database reverse engineering has been optimized in order to improve performance. All queries run according to an optimization process rule. This process uses the following registry keys: