16.6.7.10. Forward Engineering

It is possible to forward engineer a database using an SQL script or by connecting to a live database.

16.6.7.10.1. Forward Engineering Using SQL Scripts

To create a script of your database model use the Export option found under the File menu. You may export a script to alter an existing database or create a new database. The script to create a database is similar to the one created using the mysqldump db_name command.

If you choose to create a database, there are a number of export options that you may choose from.

16.6.7.10.1.1. Creating a Schema

Selecting File, Export, Forward Engineer SQL CREATE Script will start the Forward Engineer SQL Script wizard. The first page of the wizard is:

Figure 16.60. SQL Export Options

SQL Export Options

The SQL Export Options displays the following facilities:

Output SQL Script File

You can enter the name of your output file by entering it into the Output SQL Script File text box, or by using the Browse button to select a file. If this text box is left blank you will be able to view the generated script, but it will not be saved to a file.

Generate DROP Statements Before Each CREATE Statement

Omit Schema Qualifier in Object Names

Generate Separate CREATE INDEX Statements

Choosing this option creates separate statements for index creation instead of creating indexes as part of a CREATE TABLE statement.

Add SHOW WARNINGS after every DDL statement

Do Not Create Users. Only Export Privileges

To update the privileges of existing users as opposed to creating new users, select this check box. Exporting privileges for nonexistent users will result in errors when you execute the CREATE script. Exporting users that already exist, will also result in an error.

Generate INSERT Statements for Tables

If you have added any records to a table using the Insert tab of the MySQL Table Editor, choose this option. For more information about inserting records see Section 16.6.7.1.3.9, “The Inserts Tab”.

Clicking Next takes you to the SQL Object Export Filter page where you can select the objects you wish to export.

Figure 16.61. SQL Object Export Filter

SQL Object Export Filter

Precise control over the objects to be exported can be fine tuned by clicking the Show Filter button. Once the objects to be exported have been selected it is possible to reduce the expanded panel by clicking the same button, now labelled Hide Filter.

Having selected the objects you wish to export you can click the Next button to review the script that has been generated:

Figure 16.62. Review Generated Script

Review Generated Script

The Finish button saves the script file and exits. You may return to the previous screen using the Back button.

You can then use the saved script to create a database.

16.6.7.10.1.2. Altering a Schema

The menu option for altering a schema, Forward Engineer SQL ALTER Script ..., is used for updating a database that has been redesigned within MySQL Workbench. Typically, this option is used when the SQL script of a database has been imported into MySQL Workbench and changed, and then you want to create a script that can be run against a database to alter it to reflect the adjusted model. For instructions on importing a DDL script see Section 16.6.7.9.1, “Reverse Engineering Using a Create Script”.

Select File, Export, Forward Engineer SQL ALTER Script to start the Foward Engineer an ALTER Script wizard. You will be presented with the first page:

Figure 16.63. Options

Options

This first screen enables you to select a SQL script and compare it with the model currently in MySQL Workbench. The difference between the two models will be used to create an alter script that can be used to modify the target schema so that it matches the model held in MySQL Workbench. You can also simply view the script generated, rather than saving it to a file, by leaving the Output File text box empty.

Note

The script selected as the Input File must use full schema qualifiers, such as schema_name.table_name, otherwise MySQL Workbench will not be able to generate a useable alter script.

Pressing Next brings you to the Review SQL Script screen.

Figure 16.64. Script

Script

Here you can review and change the alter script that will be generated. Make any changes you wish and, if you are happy with the changes, save the ALTER script to file using the Save to File ... button. You can also click the Execute button to write the script to the previously specified output file.

The generated script can then be used to update the database.

16.6.7.10.2. Forward Engineering to a Live Server

Use forward engineering to export your schema design to a MySQL server.

Select the schema that you wish to forward engineer and then choose Database, Forward Engineer ... option from the main menu.

The first page to be displayed is Catalog Validation (validation is only available in the Standard Edition):

Figure 16.65. Catalog Validation

Catalog Validation

Click Run Validations to validate the catalog.

Click the Next to continue.

The next page enables you to set options for the database to be created. These options are as described in Section 16.6.7.10.1.1, “Creating a Schema”:

Figure 16.66. Options

Options

Select the required options and then click Next.

The next page enables you to select the objects to forward engineer:

Figure 16.67. Select Objects to Forward Engineer

Select Objects to Forward Engineer

To select a subset of objects to forward engineer use the Show Filter/Hide Filter button, and then select specific objects. Once you have selected your objects click Next to continue

On the Review Script page you may review and edit the SQL script that will be executed:

Figure 16.68. Review Script

Review Script

Click Next to continue if you are satisfied with the generated script.

The next step of the process is to connect to a MySQL server in order to create the new database schema. This page enables you to use a previously stored connection, or enter the connection parameters:

Figure 16.69. Set parameters for connecting to a DBMS

Set parameters for connecting to a
          DBMS

Once the connection parameters have been set click Execute. The next page of the wizard displays the results of the forward engineering process:

Figure 16.70. Set parameters for connecting to a DBMS

Set parameters for connecting to a
          DBMS

You can confirm the creation of the schema by connecting to the target MySQL server and issuing the SHOW DATABASES; command.

16.6.7.10.3. Database Synchronization

It is possible to synchronize a model in MySQL Workbench with a live database. By default, the synchronization process will change the live database to be the same as the model, but this is configurable during the synchronization process.

MySQL Workbench enables control over the direction of synchronization, and the objects synchronized, in a completely flexible way. You can choose to synchronize only certain tables, allow synchronization to the live database only, allow synchronization from the live database to the model only, or a combination of directions. In effect you have complete control as to whether the synchronization is unidirectional or bidirectional, and which objects exactly are subject to synchronization. This is all controlled in the Select Changes to Apply page of the synchronization wizard:

Figure 16.71. Model and Database Differences

Model and Database Differences

In the above example the live database consists of table1, table2 and table3. In MySQL Workbench an additional table, table4, has been created, along with a relationship between it and table3. Further, table5 exists in the live database, but not in the model. The actions that are configured to occur would result in table3 being altered (to include the relationship with table4), table4 being created and table5 being dropped, in the live database. It is possible to reconfigure this though.

The next example shows how the direction of synchronization can be changed:

Figure 16.72. Controlling Synchronization Direction

Controlling Synchronization
          Direction

In this case the synchronization direction has been changed so that rather than the default action of table5 being dropped from the live database, it will be incorporated into the MySQL Workbench model.

For convenience the wizard provides three additional buttons to allows synchronization directions to be applied to a group of selected changes. The Update Model button causes the selected changes to only be applied to the model itself:

Figure 16.73. Update Model Button

Update Model Button

In the above example table7 would be added to the model.

The Ignore button causes the selected changes to be ignored, no synchronization will take place for those changes:

Figure 16.74. Ignore Button

Ignore Button

In the above example no changes would take place.

The Update Source button causes the selected changes to only update the live database:

Figure 16.75. Update Source Button

Update Source Button

In this example table6 would be added to the live database and table7 would be dropped from the live database.

It is also possible to control individual changes by clicking the arrows. Clicking an arrow causes it to change between the three available synchronization directions:

Figure 16.76. Click arrows to change direction of synchronization

Click arrows to change direction of
          synchronization

In the above example table6 will be created in the live database, and table7 will be created in the model.

16.6.7.10.4. Creating a Catalog Diff Report

This facility enables you to create a report detailing the differences between your MySQL Workbench model, and a live database or script. Select Database, Generate Catalog Diff Report from the main menu to run the Compare and Report Differences in Catalogs wizard.

Having started the wizard the first step is to specify the catalogs you wish to compare. For example, you may simply wish to compare your live database against your current MySQL Workbench model:

Figure 16.77. Catalog Sources

Catalog Sources

You then proceed through the wizard, providing connection information if accessing a live database. The wizard will then produce a catalog diff report showing the differences between the compared catalogs:

Figure 16.78. Catalog Diff Report

Catalog Diff Report
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