Enterprise Architect supports a range of features for the administration of databases, including modeling database structures, importing database structures from an existing database and generating DDL for rapidly creating databases from a model.

Create Logical Data Models

With Enterprise Architect the Database Administrator can build database diagrams using the built-in UML Data Modeling Profile. This supports the definition of Primary and Foreign keys, cardinality, validation, triggers, constraints and indexes.

Generate Schema

By using Enterprise Architect's DDL generation function the Database Administrator can create a DDL script for creation of the database table structure from the model. Enterprise Architect currently supports JET-based databases, DB2, InterBase, Informix, Ingres, MySQL, SQL SERVER, PostgreSQL, Sybase Adaptive Server Anywhere and Adaptive Server Enterprise, and Oracle 9i and 10g .

Reverse Engineer Database

Using an ODBC data connection the Database Administrator can import a database structure from an existing database to create a model of the database. Generating the model directly from the database enables the DBA to quickly document their work and create a diagrammatic account of a complex database through the graphical benefits of UML.

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