title: Using Visio to generate MySQL DDL
body: <p>I have a database model diagram created in MS Visio which I would like to export to DDL file to create a MySQL database. I've already installed the MySQL ODBC driver, which I can successfully use to generate DDL file, but I have some problems anyway.</p>
  
  <p>Visio puts quotation marks around the table names which are also reserved words (like user). This is not OK, since MySQL uses backticks (`) and not quotation marks (") for this purpose.</p>
  
  <p>MySQL ODBC driver also changes the BLOB data type to LONGVARBINARY, so it cannot be used directly with MySQL when creating the database.</p>
  
  <p>Does anyone have any suggestion how to deal with these two problems?</p>