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

I also had this problem as above what i found worked

1. was using the Reverse engineer wizard
2. using the Generic OLE Db provider in the first step
3. then setting the connection provider in the next step to the highest SQL native driver shown ( I am using SQL2016 with SQL native 11.0 on a windows 10 surface pro 4 for reference )

4. then entering the correct destination and credentials in the connection tab ( testing the connection if you aren`t sure)

   and that seemed to work for me,( I then had the ability to bring through tables indexes views primary and foreign keys and stored procedures).

I also found that visio kept locking up on me ... apparently this is common ( and there I was feeling special) after finally getting sick of it i looked at these links

https://dhondiyals.wordpress.com/2011/07/29/microsoft-visio-2010-crashes-very-frequently-resolved/

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/msoffice_visio-mso_windows8/visio-2010-frozen-on-surface-pro/df1df27a-6585-4b0c-8442-a4363c541e08

I found my problem to be in the later, ( the touchscreen and handwriting running application) .So ended it, and now I have the experience I was expecting