Question : How do I create a DDL Script to capture the schema of an existing Database

Im new to MySQL and Im trying to get my bearing on the basic tools.

Trying to generate a DDL to import into the workbench (don't know why the workbench cant just connect to a database and generater one itself...seems like a fairly obvious usage)

Be that as it may I cant seem to figure out how to accomplish this or at least there doesnt seem to be a basic gui option to generate it so I assum I probably have to run some kind of command...

What would the correct command be..or am I wrong and is there an easy way in the basic tool sets to generate this DDL script.

I am using the 5.0 my sql tools

Answer : How do I create a DDL Script to capture the schema of an existing Database

      Hi!

Use mysqldump with the option --no-data see following
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/mysqldump.html
That produces the DDL of your database.

Regards,
   Tomas Helgi