# How to Reverse Engineer ER Diagram from Mysql

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**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [July 17, 2008, 2:03pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-reverse-engineer-er-diagram-from-mysql/143331 "2008-07-17T14:03:00Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 17, 2008, 2:03pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-reverse-engineer-er-diagram-from-mysql/143331/1 "2008-07-17T14:03:00Z")

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Morning everyone,  
I was going to ask someone here about how to reverse engineer a schema  
diagram from Mysql and visio because its hard to locate such information  
([Balm Upon Technical Challenges: Creating an Entity Relationship Diagram From MySQL DB](http://techpanacea.blogspot.com/2008/07/creating-entity-relationship-diagram.html)  
and the one place where its listed by google requires payment or  
registration)

So i put it up here :

> **[How To Reverse Engineer ER Diagram From MySQL in Visio](http://techpanacea.blogspot.com/2008/07/how-to-reverse-engineer-er-diagram-from.html)**