Visual Studio 2012 Database Diagram?

Question

I have done very little in C# and am following the Head First C# book. There\'s a part in the book where it asks me to create a Database Diagram for my SQL database, but in the

Answer 1

I just solved a similar problem - my VS2012 server explorer was not showing Database diagrams

The problem was that the database I was using was the SQLEXPRESS installed by VS2012 (and was sql 2012 based)

I am using SSMS 2008R

When I moved the offending database to a SQL 2008R2 server - my database diagrams appeared

This took many hours to resolve and I hope this note helps somebody else save this frustration