Display of the structure of the target database schema
after reverse engineering is also a function of the expert
knowledge: the database schema can be graphically
displayed to the user as a graph, or more precisely, as a
network layout graph. Several authors [1] [2] [3] provide
linear algorithms for fast display of database structures.
Figure 2 shows the graph layout for the ‘Northwind’
database, part of the demonstration set of applications and
databases for Microsoft SQL Server™ 7.0.