Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Database Diagram

I am working through a book about setting up a database, though i'm doing it slightly differently, using a sql server database on a remote server rather than the local sql server express database shipped with visual studio.

everything has been going fine until i've reached a part where they want to add a database diagram to the existing database. they talk about right clicking the database diagram node, and selecting add, but for some reason there is no database diagram node, so i can't do it this way. the book also says using the data>add new>diagram from the menu, but when i do this i either have no diagram option (when i have no table opened) or else the diagram option is greyed out and unselectable (when i have a table opened).

any ideas on how i can add a database diagram?

dc

You need to install the Express Advanced locally and import your database to create the diagram because you cannot create a database diagram without System Admin permissions and you are not a System Admin in your hosting company's server. Hope this helps.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/sql/download/

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