Copying a Table Across Database Diagrams

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You can copy a table from one database diagram to another in the same database.

Copying a table from one database diagram to another diagram merely adds a reference to the table in the second diagram. The table is not duplicated in your database. For example, if you copy the authors table from one database diagram to another, each diagram references the same authors table in the database.

To copy a table from another database diagram

1. Make sure you’re connected to the database whose table you want to copy.
   
   
2. Open a database diagram and select the table that you want to copy to your other database diagram.
   
   
3. Click the Copy button on the toolbar. This action places the selected table definition on the Clipboard.
   
   
4. Switch to the diagram where you want to paste the selection. This diagram must be in the same database as the diagram that you’re copying from.
   
   
5. Click the Paste button on the toolbar. The Clipboard contents appear at the new location and remain highlighted until you click elsewhere. If relationships exist between the selected tables and other tables in your diagram, relationship lines are automatically drawn.

When you edit the table in either diagram, your changes are reflected in both diagrams. Similarly, once you save the table in either diagram, the table is no longer considered "modified" in either diagram.