The MySQL developer tools team announces the availability of version 5.2.41 of the MySQL Workbench GUI tool. This version has significant improvements in several parts of the tool and also includes the new Migration Wizard plugin.

The new Migration Wizard presents an easy to use GUI for migrating databases from third party products to MySQL. In this initial release, support for Microsoft SQL Server is included, in addition to other products that support ODBC, such as PostgreSQL.

Other improvements include:

• More than 100 bug fixes
• Code completion in the SQL Editor (beta)
• Better handling of schema synchronization in modeling

For a full list of issues fixed in this release, see  http://dev.mysql.com/doc/workbench/en/changes-5.2.x.html

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Yes, it's true, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison has bought 98% of the Hawaiian Island of Lanai for $500m.  The island was previously owned by David Murdock who bought Dole in 1985.  The island has 3,200 residents, two luxury resorts, two golf courses and is 88,000 acres (141 square miles) in size. 

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Ellison Buys Island of Lanai
Declares Bill & Melinda Gates Marriage to be in Violation of Oracle Terms of Service

Says "What Island?  I only wanted a closed off veranda.  Doesn't anyone listen to me?"

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The MySQL Developer Tools team is announcing the next maintenance release of it’s flagship product, MySQL Workbench, version 5.2.40.
This version contains more than 28 bug fixes applied over version 5.2.39.

MySQL Workbench 5.2 GA

• Data Modeling

• Query

• Administration

Please get your copy from our Download site.

Sources and binary packages are available for several platforms, including Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.

http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/workbench/

Workbench Documentation can be found here.

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/workbench/en/index.html

Utilities Documentation can be found here.
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MySQL is receiving mainstream media attention this week with Twitter publicly deciding to open source work on its MySQL database. Of course, the problems we see every day are being called out. Per GigaOm’s article:

But it [MySQL] has its problems, among them scalability and performance under the pressure of high transaction rates.

Like Twitter, our customer AppDynamics, is working to better manage data at high availability rates, but they’re taking a slightly different tact. In a recent post on the AppSignal blog, Boris Livshutz, introduces what he calls a ‘Data Cloud’ and looks for common ground between SQL and NoSQL rather than calling out the differences. …

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Webyog and Percona are giving away free tickets to the Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo, and you can win them! We’re also giving away copies of High Performance MySQL, 3rd Edition!

This year’s event is the best ever, with a better lineup of talks and speakers than ever before.  It’s the one event you should not miss if you’re at all interested in MySQL.  We really want you to be there — and that’s why we’re joining with Percona to give away free tickets! It’s easy to enter:

• Follow our Twitter feed, and …

Newly appointed Paul Campaniello to bring years of emerging markets experience to growing database middleware company

NEWTON, MA – March 5, 2012 – ScaleBase, the database infrastructure company, announced today that Paul Campaniello has joined the company as Vice President of Global Marketing. ScaleBase enables organizations to instantly respond and adapt to dynamic business requirements.

The ScaleBase Data Traffic Manager is a simple solution that dynamically manages and scales your MySQL database to meet the demands of your business. ScaleBase delivers real time elasticity, increases availability and improves capacity planning – all without requiring any changes to your existing infrastructure.

Campaniello brings 25 years of experience working with rapidly-growing software companies, including Mendix, Lumigent Technologies, Precise Software and Savantis Systems. Campaniello’s responsibilities …

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!

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!

We’re excited to announce that customers & users of Continuent will now receive our expert MySQL™ database solutions, services and support when they use Continuent’s Tungsten Enterprise, a complete clustering and data management solution for the MySQL database. The same applies to customers using Tungsten Replicator, an advanced data replication solution.

Overall, the big news is that our companies will now jointly offer Tungsten Enterprise and Tungsten Replicator-based solutions to help MySQL users in accelerating the deployment and management of clustered MySQL databases, as well as the deployment of complex data replication solutions. We will also together offer MySQL users the SkySQL Enterprise subscription, a comprehensive offering of server software, production support and monitoring tools for any version of the MySQL database.

SkySQL continues to be focused on bringing the MySQL database into the future while …

The MySQL Developer Tools team is announcing the next maintenance release of it’s flagship product, MySQL Workbench, version 5.2.38.
74 bugs were fixed in this version.

MySQL Workbench 5.2 GA

• Data Modeling
• Query (replaces the old MySQL Query Browser)
• Administration (replaces the old MySQL Administrator)

Please get your copy from our Download site. Sources and binary packages are available for several platforms, including Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.

http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/workbench/

Workbench Documentation can be found here.

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/workbench/en/index.html

In addition to the new Query/SQL …