Question
Manage DigitalOcean MySQL Database with MySQL Workbench - Reverse Engineer
- Posted on January 15, 2021
- MySQLDatabasesDigitalOcean Managed MySQL Database
Asked by johnnychenjiahao
Hi,
I am using Digital Ocean MySQL database service with MySQL workbench to manage it (Version 8.0.22 build 107600 CE 64 bit).
I have succesfully connected to the database with MySQL workbench and can see my schema and tables. However i am not enable to reverse engineer my scheme into an ER model. When it imports the MySQL table objects it says:
- ERROR: (0, 16) “Test” is not valid at this position for this server version, expecting an identifier
- ERROR: (3, 13) “User” is not valid at this position for this server version, expecting an identifie
Steps to reproduce
- Connect to digital ocean database with MySQL Workbench.
- Create a schema called “Test”.
- Create a table called “User”.
- Add a column called “id” and set it as primary key.
- Apply the table
- Go to the tab “Database -> Reverse Engineer”
- Choose the scheme you created and complete the steps until you get the option to select what table objects you want to import
- Import all the table object
- Now you will get the error: “” is not valid at this position for this server version.
Does anyone have this issue and knows a solution for it?
Thanks in advance
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Asked DigitalOcean support and they managed to find a solution.
Remove ANSI_QUOTES from Global SQL Mode for the managed database server and it worked for me.
I managed to solve this problem by changing the setup connection configuration to Database from MySQL Workbench. Please change for below:- MySQL Workbench > Advance > SQL_MODE = TRADITIONAL
After setting this parameter, then, you can reverse engineer and complete all the subsequent steps using the step-by-step wizard from the reverse engineer menu for your desire database.
Hope this solution solve your problem too.
I found a “patch solution”. I export only the structure of the schema in question from the digitalocean database and, in a local environment on my computer, I generate the model from it. Not the optimal way, but it worked for me. I hope this helps you with something.