Adding a user was a bit confusing at first until I realized that you have to add a role first. You can see it in the lower part of the picture if you click on it. The exception to this was when I was adding a user and a role to my system. Honestly, I don’t spend much time on the Model screen since I’m usually working on the diagram itself. As you can see from this opening screen, you have the options for buildings multiple diagrams for a given model, easy access to the complete tables, routines, users, roles, etc. it’s got all of the features you expect and the overall quality of the program is good. ![]() If you have ever used an ERD tool before, you will be right at home with MySQL Workbench. Not terribly exciting but shows off some most of the standard features of the product. The test database if for a sample application I’m building, a ToDo list three tables and a single view. I didn’t stack the deck for or against Workbench, I was shooting for real world. Currently I have 18 programs open including email, browsers, audio editing and my IDE. A Dell Latitude E6400 with a 2.53GHz processor and 3.45 GB of RAM. I’m running this on my development machine. ![]() Below is what I consider a very superficial review of this tool and a couple of conclusions, both good and bad. Honestly, it had been a while since I had taken a look at it so I thought maybe I’d give it a go. Recently I got an email from MySQL saying the latest version of their ERD tool had been released. I’ve loved at least one, hated most others for either lack of features or price tag – or both – or been generally just unimpressed. Since moving to MySQL as my primary database, I’ve tried out several ERDs. One of the things I miss from my pre-web programming days is sitting down with an Entity-Relationship Diagramming tool and painting a picture of the database I want for my application. ![]() Those of you who know me, know I am an old school database guy.
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