By Scot Becker on 2/3/2004

I prowl around in the Visio newsgroups a lot and see many of the same questions over and over. So I am going to post some of them from time to time (and revise them as needed). Read More...

By Scot Becker on 2/3/2004

How to make an existing column into an identity column. Read More...

By Scot Becker on 2/3/2004

Visio for Enterprise Architects is not installed via the same installation wizard as Visio Studio .Net. Read More...

By Scot Becker on 2/3/2004

Some versions of Visio contain a bug where it is possible to orphan relationship lines such that the model will fail to validate/build. Read More...

By Scot Becker on 2/3/2004

Visio wraps all database object names in quotes when it generates the SQL DDL. Read More...

By Scot Becker on 2/3/2004

If you want to install Visio for Enterprise Architects, you must first install Visual Studio .Net. However, if you really do not wish to install Visual Studio, you can do a "mini" install. Read More...

By Scot Becker on 2/3/2004

To forward engineer a database from an ORM/ER Source Model, you must first create a Database Model Diagram and add the source models to the project. Read More...

By Scot Becker on 2/3/2004

The default version for the MS SQL Server ODBC driver is 7.0, which does not support the bigint datatype. Read More...

By Scot Becker on 2/3/2004

Different versions of Visio have different data modeling capabilities. Read More...