Bug #53886 Incorrectly says cannot import tables when reverse engineering
Submitted: 21 May 2010 13:45 Modified: 8 Feb 2013 16:28
Reporter: Stephan Hodges Email Updates:
Status: Closed Impact on me:
None 
Category:MySQL Workbench: Modeling Severity:S3 (Non-critical)
Version:5.2.21 RC OS:Windows
Assigned to: CPU Architecture:Any
Tags: wrong warning/error message

[21 May 2010 13:45] Stephan Hodges
Description:
If I reverse engineer a database with 277 tables, it will say that there are too many tables. If I select "Filter", and leave them ALL in the left column to be processed and click next, it will process them all.

How to repeat:
Using a localhost with XAMPP (probably not important).
Connect to database, select reverse engineer. Click next on options. 

Select Filter, moved all to "exclude", then moved them all back to "include" and clicked next.
[21 May 2010 14:40] Johannes Taxacher
Hello Stephan,
the error about too many tables is shown because WB refuses to automatically create a diagram containing more than 250 tables (the option is activated by default). it will not prevent you from importing the objects into your document (and maybe create one or several diagrams out of your imported objects manually later).
If you go through the wizard and click "execute" the warning is displayed and the checkbox to auto-create the diagram is cleared - now you can click execute to proceed without the option.
(if this works for its expected behavior)
[21 May 2010 20:14] Stephan Hodges
Thanks for the explanation. However it does say it **cannot** import the tables, but what you are saying is that it won't do it automatically. The message should (IMO) be changed in that case. Also, if, say, I had an 8 GB 64 bit system, wouldn't 277 table be a fairly small and easy to handle import?  On my system, with 3 GB and 32 bit, it took less than 10 seconds to handle it all.

But, as you say. I confess I didn't search the manual for this point before "reacting"...
[25 May 2010 9:53] Susanne Ebrecht
You are totally right, the error message should get changed.
[8 Feb 2013 16:28] Armando Lopez Valencia
No reproducible in the latest WB Version
Verified in:
Ubuntu 12.04x64
Windows7x64
WB 5.2.46 rev.10385