Reverse Engineering for Database Diagramming in Visio with SQL Server 2008

Question

I need to reverse engineer a Microsoft SQL Server 2008 in order to create a Microsoft Visio 2007 Database Model Diagram. So I choose \"Reverse Engineer\" from the Database m

Answer 1

You could create a User DSN in the ODBC Data Source Administrator utility and then connect to your instance of MSSQL 2008 through Visio 2007 by using the selecting the ODBC Generic Driver instead of the Microsoft SQL Server driver.

You could also try the SQL Server 2008 Data Mining Addins for Office 2007.

Grab them here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=896A493A-2502-4795-94AE-E00632BA6DE7&displaylang=en

I hope this helps!

Cheers