With the first beta of MySQL Workbench 6.0 just released, we’ll go through the list of improvements we’ve made since 5.2.47

New Home Screen

The Home screen went through a renovation and now has a modernized look. As part of the SQL Editor and Administration GUI unification, there’s now a single list for MySQL connections. Recently opened model files and other major features are also accessible from it.

You can organize different connections into “folders” by right clicking on a connection and selecting “Move to Group…” in the context menu.

New server connections can be added by clicking the + button next to the MySQL Connections heading. By clicking the Configure Remote Management… button in the new connection setup dialog, you can add server management capabilities to the connection. As before, SSH access with “sudo” is needed for remote management.

If you attended last April’s Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo in Santa Clara, you know it was a rare opportunity to learn from some of the most accomplished system architects and developers in the business. Now it’s time to give back.

The call for papers (CFP) is now open for Percona Live London, November 11-12 at the Millenium Gloucester Conference Center. Login or register as speaker and submit your proposals.

Your participation is an opportunity to make a difference. After all, the conference would be meaningless without great content. So step up and volunteer to present your unique insights into MySQL and MySQL-related technologies either as a …

Overview

First off, the important news. Tungsten Replicator 2.1.0 was released today.
You can download it and give it a try right now.

Second, I would say that I am quite surprised at how much we have done in this release. The previous release (2.0.7) was in February, which is just a few months ago, and yet it looks like ages when I see the list of improvements, new features and bug fixes in the Release Notes. I did not realized it until I ran my last batch of checks to test the upgrade from the previous release, which I hadn’t run for quite a long time. It’s …

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Oracle:

Owen Allen got a question about the Management Credentials that are used for managing assets in Ops Center.

Nicolas Gasparotto carries on with his Prompt-free Appliance deployment series.

An introduction from the Cubegeek: Big Data – Part One.

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The MySQL Developer Tools team is pleased to announce the availability of the first beta release of MySQL Workbench 6.0. MySQL Workbench 6.0 is the new major update of the Development and Administration tool for MySQL. This release includes over 100 bug fixes, 30 new features and a new redesigned UI. As a beta, this release is not suitable for production use.  Please test and file your bug reports at http://bugs.mysql.com

As always, MySQL Workbench is natively available on Windows, Mac, Linux.

Improvements in MySQL Workbench 6.0:

• a new redesigned Home screen
• the SQL Editor and Server Administration UIs were merged into a single connection specific interface, allowing for quick access to administration features while simplifying the location of specific features
• improved model Synchronization, lets you compare and update your …

The MySQL Developer Tools team is pleased to announce the availability of the first beta release of MySQL Workbench 6.0. MySQL Workbench 6.0 is the new major update of the Development and Administration tool for MySQL. This release includes over 100 bug fixes, 30 new features and a new redesigned UI. As a beta, this release is not suitable for production use.  Please test and file your bug reports at http://bugs.mysql.com

As always, MySQL Workbench is natively available on Windows, Mac, Linux.

Improvements in MySQL Workbench 6.0:

• a new redesigned Home screen
• the SQL Editor and Server Administration UIs were merged into a single connection specific interface, allowing for quick access to administration features while simplifying the location of specific features
• improved model Synchronization, lets you compare and update your …

Join 6100 others and follow Sean Hull on twitter @hullsean. There are two ways to speedup UNIONs in a MySQL database. First use UNION ALL if at all possible, and second try to push down your conditions. [mytweetlinks] 1. UNION ALL is much faster than UNION How does a UNION work? Imagine you have two [...]

Taxonomy upgrade extras: galeraclusterMySQL ClusterHigh Availability

Recently we had to set-up a 3-node Galera Cluster with a Load Balancer in front of it. Because Galera Cluster nodes (mysqld) still reply to TCP requests on port 3306 when they are expelled from the Cluster it is not sufficient to just leave it to the Load Balancer to check the port if a Galera node is properly running or not.

We used the wsrep_notify_cmd variable to hook our own script into the Galera Cluster which disables each Node on the Load Balancer when its state …

Replication : Be careful while executing DCL with replicate-ignore-db=mysql. Normally in mysql replication Data Control Language (DCL) statements won’t replicate into slave if we are configuring replication with replicate-ignore-db=mysql. But if we are executing DCL statements from different database schema (other than mysql schema) in master, the event will replicate to slave. slave configuration mysql> show slave status\G [...]

Are you a Django user? There’s an upcoming Django conference in Chicago in a few months, and I know they’re looking for speakers with MySQL experience in particular. One suggestion the organizers have floated is a talk on MySQL:

I’m looking for someone to give at least one MySQL talk there. In particular, I would love a (friendly but vigorous) “Why you should use MySQL instead of PostgreSQL talk”, as PostgreSQL tends to get a lot of love and attention at Django events, and MySQL not so much.

Take a look at it and see if you are interested. Presenting at a conference is one of the best things you can do for your career, your company, and your community of open-source software. I highly encourage it if you haven’t tried it.