
14.1 Using the Reverse Engineer Wizard
A physical database may be reverse engineered to either an ORM model or to a logical
model. Reverse engineering to ORM was covered in Chapter 8 and enforces stricter
model checking rules than are required for reverse engineering to a logical model. If the
ORM reverse engineering process fails, you may still be able to reverse engineer the
database to a logical model.
We now discuss reverse engineering to a logical database model. This process
requires an ODBC connection, which may already exist or can be created from within
the reverse engineering wizard. Creating this connection is not discussed in depth here, ...