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Tips and tricks for PowerDesigner

In loose order I report here about my gain of knowledge with the data modeling tool PowerDesigner. For myself, this series is a kind of diary, a knowledge base and the 'Secret Spice', in which I record my discoveries, my tips and tricks around PowerDesigner documented for myself: For problems of or with PowerDesigner that I had while working on data modeling tasks.

So don't expect any news here about the data modeling tool PowerDesigner itself.

Of course, and as always, from my personal point of view or from the point of view of one of the team members of the Data Management Center of Excellence (DMCE) at my favorite customer: FastChangeCo!

: Published: 07 February 2022; Last Updated: 09 March 2023

PowerDesigner offers the possibility to edit the properties for a database in the so-called DBMS resource files. The DMBS resource files contain all information for PowerDesigner to generate DDL, DML and other SQL artifacts. For many databases, there are pre-built, included DBMS resource files for the different database versions.