Toad Data Modeler 7.2 - User Guide

Available Data Providers are:

• Connection via ADO and DAO

Connection via ADO and DAO:

Entity

Select the Linked Table checkbox and fill out the following boxes (name: filled_value):

Link Datasource: C:\Documents and Settings\mario\Documents\MSAccess\fileaccess.mdb

Link Provider String: Microsoft Access;PWD=mypassword

Remote Table Name: TableName

Attribute

Select the AutoNumber LI data type to display the Auto Number Type box. From this box, you can select Increment or Random.

Select the Byte, Currency, Decimal, Double, Integer, Long Integer, Single data type to display the Number of Decimal Places box.

Select the Hyperlink, Memo, Text data type to display the Allow Zero Length and Compress Unicode checkboxes.

User Data Types in the Model menu

Microsoft Access database does not have user data types. Nevertheless, these user data types in Toad Data Modeler  work only as an additional structure that can be used for a data type that Microsoft Access database supports but that is not available in Toad Data Modeler.

Generation of names in brackets

• Check Delimited Identifiers in DDL Script Generation | Detail Settings to generate all names in brackets
• If unchecked, names will be generated without brackets with exception of names that include spaces

Generation of captions

• Check Generate Captions in DDL Script Generation | Detail Settings for MS Access models

Toad Data Modeler doesn’t generate an SQL script for the Microsoft Access database, but does generate a fully functional source code in the VBA language. The source code can be executed directly in the Microsoft Access as Module. Appropriate libraries in Microsoft Access are necessary - "Microsoft ActiveX Data Objects 2.x Library" and "Microsoft ADO Ext. 2.x for DDL and Security" for ADO, or "Microsoft DAO 3.6 Object Library" for DAO.

To select a suitable library, click the Tools menu | References (in Microsoft Access main menu).

In the beginning of every script generated for Microsoft Access, you will see the following order:

Specifics of Toad Data Modeler support

• It is not possible to specify a Filegroup in Entity Properties | General | Data Space. When you enable Partition Scheme you can select from available schemes

• Definitions of User and Schema objects are not loaded
• There are differences between Azure SQL Database and SQL Server 2016 in External Table syntax
• Right-click External Tables in the Physical Model Explorer and select Add to create external tables.

New Objects in Azure SQL Database V12

• Partition Scheme and Partition Function
• Fulltext Catalog, Fulltext Index and Fulltext Stoplist
• Extended Property
• XML Schema Collection
• Primary, Secondary, Selective and Secondary Selective XML Index
• Spatial Index, Columnstore Index
• Sequence
• Column Encryption Key
• External Table
• External Data Source
• Security Policy

SQL Server unsupported features in Azure SQL Database

These objects are not supported by Microsoft Azure in comparison with Microsoft SQL Server:

• Assembly
• CLR features such as (CLR procedures, functions, triggers, user-defined type, ORDER property in functions)
• Aggregate Function
• Extended Stored Procedure
• Filestream and its settings
• Semantic search (STATISTICAL_SEMANTICS in CREATE FULLTEXT INDEX)
• FileTable
• Search Property List and its application in Fulltext Index
• STATISTICS_INCREMENTAL property of keys and indexes
• External File Format
• Stretch database (REMOTE_DATA_ARCHIVE v CREATE TABLE)