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MySQL Workbench Reference
Use the Add Diagram icon in this area to create EER diagrams. When you add an EER diagram a new tab appears below the
toolbar. Use this tab to navigate to the newly created EER diagram. EER Diagrams are discussed in depth in Section 6.5, “An EER
Diagram Canvas”.
If you do not wish to have your EER diagrams as docked or tabbed windows you may change this. For more information, see Section
6.1.2, “Docking and Undocking Windows”.
6.4.2. The Physical Schemata
The Physical Schemata panel of the MySQL Model page shows the active schemata and the objects that they contain.
Expand and contract the Physical Schemata section by double clicking the arrow on the left of the Physical Schemata
title bar. When the Physical Schemata section is expanded, all the schemata that are currently loaded are displayed.
Each schema shows as a tab; a specific schema is selected by clicking its tab. When MySQL Workbench is first opened a default
schema, mydb is selected. You can start working with this schema or you can load a new MySQL Workbench Models (MWB) file.
There are a variety of ways to add schema to the Physical Schemata panel. You can open an MWB file, reverse engineer a
MySQL create script, or, if you are using a commercial version of MySQL Workbench, you can reverse engineer a database by
connecting to a MySQL server.
You can also add a new schema by clicking the + button on the top right of the Physical Schemata panel. To remove a
schema, click its tab and use the - button found to the immediate left of the + button. To the left of these buttons are three buttons
that control the way database object icons are displayed. The left-most button displays database objects as large icons, the next button
to the right displays small icons in multiple rows, and the last button displays small icons in a single list.
To expand the Physical Schemata window move the mouse pointer anywhere over the gray area that defines the lower edge of the
Physical Schemata panel. Hold down the right mouse button and move the mouse to adjust the size of the window.
6.4.2.1. Schema Objects
The Physical Schemata panel is divided up into the following sections:
• Tables
• Views
• Routines
• Routine Groups
Each section contains the specified database objects and an icon used for creating additional objects.
Any objects added to the Physical Schemata show up in the Catalog palette docked on the right side of the application.
Any database objects added to an EER diagram canvas also show up in the Physical Schemata section. For information
about adding objects to an EER diagram canvas see Section 6.5, “An EER Diagram Canvas”.
6.4.3. Schema Privileges (Commercial Version)
The Privileges panel of the MySQL Model page is used to create users for your schemata and also to define roles — making
it much easier to assign the same rights to different users or different rights to different users.
Note
This feature is not available in the MySQL Workbench OSS version.
The Schema Privileges panel is divided up into the following sections:
• Users
• Roles
The following image displays the Schema Privileges section of the MySQL Model tab.
Figure 6.8. Roles and privileges
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