Re: Reverse Engineer Access DB

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reverse engineering a database is the process of extracting a database
structure, the reverse of forward engineering is that of updating the
database structure. forward enineering is only available in the enterprise
version of visio. what version of visio are you using....
al

"Derek" <Derek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>I have reverse engineered an access db that is currently in disarray into a
> Visio drawing. It seems that it is possible to synchronize the drawing
> and
> db by linking them so that I can make changes to tables in the drawing and
> have them affect the db. Is this correct? If it is, any idea why I get
> an
> error that says "the current shape does not contain a valid record key
> value". I am new to Visio, but have used db modelling software in the
> past.
> I have searched through all of the help and haven't found anything that
> does.


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