Helping you to create a nice entity-relationship diagram for your application model is our job. But it wouldn’t be so nice if it took you too many clicks to generate SQL CREATE and ALTER statements (aka Forward Engineering).
In the past, the only way to do that would be clicking on the Version Manager tab, then right-clicking on a version, then, and then and then…
Not anymore!
Introduce the Generate SQL speed button on the menu bar. Click on it to select whether you want CREATE statements or ALTER statements.
CREATE Statements
You can generate CREATE statements based on your current work or any previous version of work. SB will also ask you to commit your work into version manager if you choose to use your current work for the script, so that you can always retrieve the corresponding diagram of any scripts you run on your database.
ALTER Statements
First, you will choose what version of work you want to migrate your database to.
Then, choose the version your database is running at currently:
Go go go, go try it fast!
New Features
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We have users asking for a larger canvas and better bird’s view support. And here we go: we’ve added 4 more pages of 3,000 x 3,000 px canvas with pagination support in bird’s view.
So now you can keep adding more and more entities to your database model for your ever-growing application!
New Features
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Some of you using a netbook with a tiny screen might find it too expensive to keep showing the top info bar – the region that shows the project title, owner information, logout link, etc. Now you can hide it by clicking View > Top Info Bar under the menu.
The bar will be shown again under these circumstances:
Another interesting improvement: the menu bar will now flow nicely if the screen size is not enough to display all menu buttons:
Enjoy!
New Features
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You know you can draw an identifying and a non-identifying relationship by clicking the buttons on the menu bar. And they come with some default values for other attributes (child cardinality, parent optionality, child optionality, etc) of the relationship. You had to edit the relationship and did a few more clicks before you could make it right.
But now with the speed relationship buttons, you can choose exactly what you want your relationship to be before forming one. Doesn’t it sound prefect to anyone that is really into relationships? 
Try it out: click on the little drop-down beside the relationship you want, and explore along until you pick all the values. Then drag from the parent entity to the child. The relationship will form with the precise attributes you want.
If you want to make a new relationship with exactly the same attributes (usually out of your design pattern), just click on the big button face (as you would usually do before) and the new relationship values will follow the old ones.
Who is the relationship guru on earth? You bet!
New Features
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