Is there a macro for creating tables with repeated columns in MySQL WorkBench?

Question

I find myself building many tables in MySQL Workbench that have the same first three columns:

1. id
2. isActive
3. lastChanged

Not only are these three columns repeated, but their exact properties (not null, auto increment for the id, default value of 1 for isActive, etc) are also repeated.

So my Question:

-Does there exist a macro to begin building the table for a given table name, to speed up this process?

-If not can someone provide a link to getting me started for building something like this?

(Then after using this macro I can fill in the additional columns but the database development time will be less).

Thanks!

Answer 1

The answer to my question - which I thought of based on a great suggestion by Ed Heal (see his comments above), would be to use the SQL Additions to workbench - Snippets.

You can add a new snippet under 'My Snippets' which contains the create table script, rather than maintaining in a text file, and then just fill in the rest of the columns after you do a right mouse + 'insert snippet at text cursor'