MySQL Workbench Release Notes
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Modeling simplifies database design and maintenance by enabling you, the data architect, to visualize requirements and resolve design issues. Model-driven database design is an efficient methodology for creating valid and well-performing databases, while providing the flexibility to respond to evolving data requirements. Models are used to build ER diagrams and physical MySQL databases.
MySQL Workbench provides extensive capabilities for creating and manipulating database models, including these:
Create and manipulate a model graphically
Reverse engineer a live database to a model
Forward engineer a model to a script or live database
Create and edit tables and insert data
This is not an exhaustive list. The following sections discuss these and additional data-modeling capabilities.