Modeler: 14/Reverse

A reverse engineering of an existing database catalog can be performed in various ways. The easiest and complete reverse engineering is through the 'File\Import\ODBC Catalog'.

This results in wizard-dialog shown, which takes the user through the various steps of reverse engineering.

Since semantics are missing from a technical implementation, the wizard allows for naming conventions, default fact expressions, and some sampling of data.

For a more fine-grained process, we recommend the Data Explorer. This allows users to drag and drop the catalog information per column or table onto the vocabulary panels to build up the information model.