Reverse Engineering and Import Overview

With Database Designer for PostgreSQL you can extract database tables, attributes, relationships, indexes and other objects from existing databases.

Database Designer for PostgreSQL supports a number of different communication methods: direct connection to database, ADO/ODBC support. This enables you import different objects from multiple databases.

Examine these import facilities:

• Reverse Engineering PostgreSQL Database. You can connect to PostgreSQL database directly and reverse engineer its objects.
• Import from Access Database. This tool allows you to import tables, attributes, relationships, indexes to your diagram from Microsoft Access database file.
• Universal Reverse Engineering. Use this tool to reverse engineer/import the structure of various databases. It allows you to reverse engineer the following databases: Sybase ASE and ASA, Oracle, Informix, MSSQL, DB2, DBF and many others that accessible by OLEDB or ODBC.