Reverse engineer and discover foreign keys with SQL Developer Data Modeler
This is a nice piece of functionality that Oracle added to SQL Developer Data Modeler some time ago. Heli gives a nice step by step guide on how to use it.
You can easily document your database with Data Modeler: just reverse engineer the database with File-> Import -> Data Dictionary. But what if the database has no foreign keys? What’s the point of documenting then? Just tables that has nothing to do with each other….
Well, Data Modeler can help with that too: you can use “Discover Foreign Keys” functionality to find the foreign keys that should be in the database and even generate the DDLs for them if needed…
There are two ways Data Modeler can guess the foreign keys for you: the column has the same name as a primary key column in parent table or using the naming templates. And combinations of those.
Select the relational model from the Browser. Right-click and select “Discover Foreign Keys”. I have two tables: CUSTOMER and ORDER.
I will ask Data Modeler to find me the foreign keys.
If I select…
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