Online Documentation for SQL Manager for SQL server

Using context menus

The context menu of the diagram area contains a number of items available in the Navigation bar and toolbars and allows you to:

• select all objects in the diagram area;
• select headers of all objects;
• select all columns of all objects;
• adjust diagram zoom for optimal representation: zoom in, zoom out, select rectangle to fit, fit model, specify a predefined zoom value;
• set the cursor mode to Select or create a new table, view, procedure, function relation, or comment;
• configure the grid: draw grid, snap to grid;
• adjust the diagram style: draw primary key columns separately, draw entities icons, draw attributes icons, draw only names of entities, draw foreign key names;
• perform Reverse Engineering;
• extract metadata of the diagram objects to Execute Script;
• view/edit diagram options.

The context menu of an entity contains items for working with the object and allows you to:

• edit the object using its editor;
• create a new object using its editor;
• drop the object from the database;
• show/hide object subitems;
• remove the object from the diagram.

The context menu of a column contains items for working with the object and its columns and allows you to:

• edit the selected column using its editor (Column Editor);
• create a new column;
• drop the selected column;
• edit the object using its editor;
• create a new object using its editor;
• drop the object from the database;
• show/hide object subitems;
• remove the object from the diagram.