Can you create a database diagram for a database and save it without creating the actual tables? You know, so the boss can check it out before you apply it?
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Can you create a database diagram for a database and save it without creating the actual tables? You know, so the boss can check it out before you apply it?
Not if you’re setting keys/relationships. When you make those connections in the diagram, SSMS establishes the keys/constraints as well.
If your boss wants to look at a diagram before you make the changes, I would suggest Visio or some other visualization tool. You can provide the same information (albiet with a little extra effort) and it doesn’t mess with the DB itself. Addtionally, you’d then have a “database diagram” which was disconnected from the DB, so if you wanted to make future changes, you could move things around with impunity until you got your connections/relationships just the way you want them.