In addition, Visio provides productivity enhancements for creating database and software diagrams. With Visio 2002, users can add new fields consecutively to database tables or software classes, enabling quicker data entry. In addition to a full list of database management systems, Visio supports SQL Server 2000. Users can automatically generate a complete database diagram from the Reverse Engineer Wizard in Visio, eliminating the need to drag tables from the Tables window. Also, building a database diagram from the Tables window is faster in Visio 2002 than in Visio 2000.
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The Visio 2002 building plan solutions increase user efficiency and provide custom features for incorporating data and CAD drawings into diagrams. Shapes manipulated only through dialog boxes in Visio 2000 can now be updated through direct resizing or positioning, or by specifying properties in the Custom Properties window. Visio Professional provides shapes that represent curved walls and also allows any flat wall to be transformed into a curved wall. Users can easily change the curvature of curved wall shapes. Improved wall intersection cleanup.