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Chapter 5: Creating and Altering Tables
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Figure 5-4
With that, you’ll get an Add Table dialog, as shown in Figure 5-5. This lets us decide what tables we
want to include in our diagram — we can created multiple diagrams if we wish, potentially each covering
some subsection — or submodel — of the overall database schema. In this case, we have an empty list
because we just created our database.
Figure 5-5
For now, just click Close (you can’t add tables if there are no tables to add!), and you should get an
empty diagram screen. The nice part is that you can add a table by either right-clicking and choosing the
appropriate option, or by clicking on the New Table icon in the toolbar. When you choose New Table,
SQL Server will ask you for the name you want to give your new table. You will then get a mildly helpful
dialog box that lets you fill in your table one piece at a time — complete with labels for what you
need to fill out, as shown in Figure 5-6.
Figure 5-6