After having established a MySQL or MariaDB connection, HeidiSQL offers to launch a command line window (located in the "Tools" menu). This executes mysql.exe from the directory which is set in Tools > Preferences > Miscellaneous. The clue is that HeidiSQL passes all connection parameters from the current connection to that command line, including host/user/password, named pipes and SSL settings.



Although HeidiSQL is a pure GUI, there are situations in which you benefit from a text based window, without the myriad of GUI controls Heidi offers.

To get this feature, you just need to update to the latest build (Help > Check for updates).

See also issue #2728 for more details. Thanks to jsdeter for the idea!

New feature provides significantly faster insight and root cause analysis

SAN JOSE, Calif., February, 15, 2012 – Monitis, the leading cloud and web application monitoring software provider, today announces that it has added comprehensive MySQL database monitoring to its award-winning Application Performance Management & Monitoring platform. The robust Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) tool enables users to gain significantly faster insight when conducting root cause analysis.

The MySQL monitoring feature includes 246 monitoring variables and more than 21 different metrics to provide one of the easiest to use, yet comprehensive database monitoring tools

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Jet Profiler for MySQL 2.0.5 is now available!

We recently announced that we now provide multi-language support for English, German and Swedish. This time, the latest version adds French language support. By meeting requests from our French speaking users we hope to help even more companies manage their MySQL database performance.

This release also contains bug fixes and adds support for explaining CREATE TABLE ... AS SELECT ... queries by just explaining the SELECT part.

See also this press release.


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Starting with MySQL 5.5.7 or MariaDB 5.2, the server allows the client to authenticate via plugin. HeidiSQL now fully supports establishing such connections, by providing an exported method called mysql_authentication_dialog_ask, which is automatically invvoked by libmysql.dll, if the server says so during the connection handshake.

Curious how that works? Here's a simple example:

1. Be sure to have the "plugins" directory in C:\Program files\HeidiSQL\, and the dialog.dll. This is done automatically when installing a newer beta build from the download page.

2. On your server, install the plugin "dialog.dll":

INSTALL PLUGIN three_attempts SONAME 'dialog.dll';

3. On your server, create a new user which authenticates via this plugin:

CREATE USER test_dialog IDENTIFIED VIA

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In MySQL you can restrict users to connect only via SSL settings. HeidiSQL's user manager now adds support for these settings, which include cipher, subject and issuer. You can also select X509 certificate, in which case cipher etc. do not matter. To get this new feature, you just need to update to the latest build (see Help > Check for updates).

We wish all our customers, users and partners a Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year.

The year of 2011 has been a terrific year for us.  But first let us have a look at where we started 10 years ago. The first version of SQLyog was released in the spring of 2002 – what will mark our 10 year anniversary as a company early next year. In the period since then we have seen quite a lot of other MySQL clients come and go. We are happy to see most of our existing customers upgrade regularly, to see our user base increase, and we are happy to do our best to provide the solutions requested by users and to keep pace with MySQL development.

And also 4½ years ago we added MONyog to our portfolio. So there will be another important anniversary to celebrate in 2012 as well. MONyog has also proved to

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There is a huge amount of buzz around NOSQL, and we at ScaleBase are happy to see companies making the move to NOSQL. Despite what some people might think, we consider it a blessed change. It is time for applications to stop having a single data store – namely a relational database (probably Oracle) – and start using the best tool for the job.

In the last couple of years, since NOSQL technologies broke into our world, a lot of experience has been gathered on how to use them. Mainly, we see NoSQL technologies used for one of the following scenarios:

• Queries that require a very short response time
• Storing data without a well-defined schema, or storing data with a frequently modified schema

Now, I’m not in any way saying that NOSQL solutions are not used for other scenarios as well; I’m only saying that from our experience here at ScaleBase ,

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ScaleBase Releases Database DBT2 Performance Results

Technology achieves unprecedented transaction speed for a MySQL database at a low cost

 

Boston, Mass., December 12, 2011 – ScaleBase, Inc. today announced the results of its MySQL database benchmark, based on the industry-standard DBT-2 test. ScaleBase has achieved an unmatched 180,000 Transactions per Minute – the highest result for a MySQL database – while running on an Amazon RDS environment. Cost per Transaction was reported to be 50 cents, which demonstrates the cost-effectiveness of the ScaleBase solution on the Amazon EC2 cloud. Full details of the benchmark

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On the download page you will find the executable for each SVN commit in the HeidiSQL repository. The executables are processed in conjunction with a SVN post commit hook. I just extended this process so it also creates the installer with that executable, using a InnoSetup command line. This way, users who need a full installer and also want to use the latest build can do that in one download.

Thanks to Jordan Russell for that excellent, free InnoSetup.

There are several ways to implement sharding in your application. The first and by far the most popular, is to implement it inside your application. It can be implemented as part of your own Data Access Layer, database driver, or an ORM extension. However, there are many limitations with such implementation, which drove us, at ScaleBase, to look for an alternative architecture.

As the above diagram shows, ScaleBase is implemented as a standalone proxy. There are several benefits to using such an architecture.

First and foremost, since the sharding logic is not embedded inside the application, third party applications can be used, be it MySQL Workbench, MySQL command line interface or any other third party product. This translates to a huge saving in the day-to-day costs of both

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Update: Thank you all for making this campaign a colossal success. We are extending this offer till Dec 2nd, 23:59 PST. Many corporate users requested us to extend the offer as they require time to get official approval. Pick your copy right now! Use coupon code blkfrdy11 to get 50% off.

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Happy Thanksgiving!

Black Friday is back with a bang. Get a flat 50% discount on all Webyog products. Yes, you read it right, a flat fifty percent discount. Hurry, this offer expires Nov 28th Dec 2nd, 23:59 PST. Use coupon code blkfrdy11 to avail the discount on any purchase. Buy Now.

Still using SQLyog Community Edition?

Upgrade to the feature rich SQLyog

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Users of MS SQL servers may find it useful to connect to their server via Windows authentication. The login dialog disables username + password in that case, as these are not required (indeed ignored by the server). The old option "Prompt for credentials" is now mutually exclusive to the new checkbox option "Windows authentication". Makes no sense to prompt for user+pass which then are ignored by the server. The connection dialog has grown a bit in its minimum height, as now the mentioned two checkboxes need vertical space. Well, features need space.



For MySQL sessions this checkbox is disabled. Although there is a MySQL server plugin which allows Windows authentication, the difference to MS SQL is



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Wine users reported this a couple of times in HeidiSQL's bug tracker, and also on WineHQ there were several reports for the same thing found: black color on icon areas which should be transparent. Cosmetic though quite annoying for a GUI which provides important buttons on a main toolbar. Wine 1.3.33 says this is fixed now, as stated on WineHQ.

This is the third blog post in a series designed to assist companies who wish to migrate their code from Oracle to MySQL. You can read the previous post here.

I went over some of the difficult topics you’ll face when migrating from Oracle to MySQL. However, I left out the topic of database scalability (after all – this is a ScaleBase blog).

Oracle users are used to having a very clear scalability path. You start with an Oracle Standard edition, and if your budget allows, you increase hardware (memory, CPU), improve your storage speed, buy Oracle Enterprise edition and use portioning. If all that fails, you move to a distributed RAC environment. If you’re really on the high end, you buy ExaData2. This is where your

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This is the second blog post in a series designed to assist companies who wish to migrate their code from Oracle to MySQL.

In the first post of the series I tried to explain why you would like your web platform to run on a MySQL database, and not on an Oracle database. In this post, I’ll try to focus on the changes that you need to plan for when migrating from an Oracle environment.

Code

Probably the most obvious change is in code. There is no way around it – you’ll have to change your code.

SQL statements.
While ANSI SQL 92 is a standard, Oracle offers extensions to the spec – and those are used by most developers, sometimes without their being aware of it.
Of course, when moving to MySQL,

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This is the first blog post in a series designed to assist companies who wish to migrate their code from Oracle to MySQL.

During the World War II “Battle of the Bulge”, General McAuliffe said to the German forces who asked for his surrender: “Nuts!” The rest is history – he won the battle, and the allied forces won the war.

Some things are like that. So absurd that “Nuts” is the only possible reaction. And frankly – running your web infrastructure on an Oracle database is one of those things.

Now, the pricing issue is very well covered. Just see here. And for most people, this should be enough. We had a customer migrating from a 7M USD environment to a 200K yearly environment (licensing and support)

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Jet Profiler for MySQL 2.0 is now available!

Multi-language Support

We are pleased to announce that multi-language support is now available via this release, responding to feedback and user requests. Support is now available in three languages including English, German and Swedish. If you would like Jet Profiler translated into your language, please let us know. And if you feel you can help us with translation, even better!

Adjustable data retention timeframe

Adjustable data retention timeframe is another exciting feature. The feature itself allows you to specify how long the application will keep the data before discarding it. This feature enables extended profiling over days or weeks without sacrificing a great deal in performance or disk space. You can access this setting via the recording settings dialog.

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ScaleBase is happy to sponsor the Percona Live London MySQL Conference. If you plan to attend, you can catch our booth on the expo floor or attend Liran’s session – “The Benefits of Database Sharding” at 2PM, October 25th at the Bishopsgate Suite.

In the previous post of this series (which can be found here) I discussed how to identify tables that can serve as good candidates for sharding.

Once you have decided which tables should be sharded (all the rest should be global tables), the choice of sharding keys is rather straightforward, as most will use the table primary key as the shard key. Of course, if multiple tables are sharded, and there is a foreign key relationship between these tables, then the foreign key will serve as the shard key for some tables.

Many people attempt to shard based on customer_id or a resource id, but I have seen how this usually fails in production environments. It is very hard to know in advance which customers belong together in the same database, and since customers can suddenly increase their traffic,

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Yeah, we know it’s 6 month from now – but we’ll give a lecture titled “Database Sharding on MySQL” at the Boston MySQL Meetup. Register here.

Wow. Our launch was picked up by many news sites. Here’s just a partial list. Thanks guys.

• BusinessWire
• CWCS
• Diversity
• DowJones (Subscription required)
• DZone
• Finanznachrichten

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Boston, Mass., August 15, 2011 – ScaleBase, Inc. today announced the general availability of ScaleBase 1.0 for unlimited scalability of MySQL databases. ScaleBase 1.0 delivers MySQL performance and high availability, without the need to change a single line of application code. Users of MySQL can download and easily deploy the software by visiting http://www.scalebase.com/solution/download/.

ScaleBase utilizes two techniques for scaling: read-write splitting and transparent sharding (a technique for massively scaling-out relational database). The software enables MySQL to scale

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