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i have an existing database and have recently downloaded mysql workbench. I was wondering if anyone could walk me through how to navigate the workbench and how to get a visualization of the RDB. I'd like to know how all the tables are related to each other.

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Go to Database Menu and select Reverse engineer, or simply press Ctrl+R (Windows) or ⌘+R (OS X).

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    What's your reason to vote me down?? :|
    – Nima Ghaedsharafi
    Aug 26, 2013 at 19:41
  • Hi @Nima Ghaedsharafi, your answer helped me - so I voted! :)
    – Askar
    Jan 22, 2015 at 7:53
  • I'll add that this also depends on your database design. We have Hybris eCommerce database and when I went to attempt to reverse engineer it, it had over 1000+ objects, and complained until I drastically reduced that number to around 100 which defeats the purpose. And, even after filtering it down to a core 100 objects (customers, carts, orders, shipping) the cards were still a mess and didn't create an interesting map that I could easily explore.
    – headwinds
    Sep 23, 2022 at 14:36

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