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Schema Browser
Figure 18 shows the Schema Browser. The Schema Browser is used to
describe the schema of the underlying data store into which the persistent
classes are stored.
Figure 18. Persistence Builder Schema Browser
Describing a schema involves the usual tasks of defining any database
schema, namely, creating tables, columns, primary keys, foreign keys, and so
on.
The database tables can be defined from scratch, or they can be imported
from an existing database. Once the schema has been described, it can be
exported to a database, or DDL or scripts can be generated to be invoked
later to create the schema in ...