General Functionality

This chapter describes the global functionality which can be found in the title and menu bar of DATPROF Analyze. The following chapters give detailed descriptions of the core functionality of DATPROF Analyze, and all of its settings.

In very general terms, the analysis process involves the following steps:

• Creating a new project.

• Providing a connection to the database.

• Importing meta data from the database.

• Configuring the analyze functions.

• Run Analyze statistics.

• Analyzing the database, and interpreting used profiles.

New project or existing project

Once DATPROF Analyze is started a dialog is shown where the user can choose to create a new project or open an existing project. The user has three options:

• New project: This option asks for a project name and location where the project should be saved. These fields are prefilled with a default value. After confirmation, an empty project is created and the Settings window is opened.

• Recently opened projects: The right side of the dialog shows the recently opened projects. By clicking on one of these projects, the last saved version of the project is opened.

• Open existing project: This option shows a dialog which can be used to open a saved project.

Menu

Several features of the application can be started through the menu. The menu contains four options:

• File

• Project

• Visualize

• Help

File

• New Project: Opens the dialog to create a new project.

• Open existing project: Opens the dialog to open an existing project.

• Save: Saves the changes of the current project.

• Save as: Saves the changes of the current project as a new project.

• Close project: Closes the current project, then opens the opening dialog.

• Exit: Closes DATPROF Analyze.

Project

• Import and synchronize:  Opens the dialog to import the metadata or to import metadata using a DME file and the synchronization metadata wizard.

• Clicking this option opens a dialog that allows you to export the data model (partially or entirely) to a generic DATPROF file format. This file format can be used within the DATPROF product suite to exchange data models and metadata.

  The Data Model Export (DME) functionality enables the user to save the data model in a standard DATPROF file format. The resulting file can be used across various DATPROF products, including DATPROF Subset, DATPROF Privacy, and DATPROF Analyze.

  To export the project data model to a DME file, go to the menu Project → Export Metadata to DME File. In the dialog, the user can select which tables (per schema) to export, along with the corresponding foreign keys.

Using the menu option Project → Import and Synchronize metadata from DME file, the user can import a data model from a DME file into his project.

• Generate analyze report: Collect all comments and generate a HTML report.

• Profile Overview: Opens a view in which all tables and columns with their analyzed profiles are shown.

Visualize

• Visualize data model: This option displays a visual representation of the imported data model, including all user-defined relationships. The diagram shows all imported entities, along with any custom-added relations. Tables that have one or more anonymization functions applied are highlighted in green.

  Additionally, the window provides options to save or print (parts of) the displayed diagram.

In order to visualize the data model, the metadata needs to be imported through the database connection beforehand.

Help

• Help: Opens this manual (https://docs.datprof.com/analyze/1.3/ )

• Enter license key: Opens a dialog which can be used to enter a purchased license key.

• About DATPROF Analyze: Opens the About screen of DATPROF Analyze.