Dear MySQL Users,

We’re happy to announce the first Release Candidate (RC) of MySQL Workbench.
Version 5.2.21 includes many improvements and fixes for 62 bugs.

We have introduced a new ease of use feature on the Workbench Home screen – the Plug-in Starter area – top left hand side. The icons listed in that area are used to get quick access to the most popular plug-ins that have been written for MySQL Workbench, either by us or the community.

If you are planning to write a plug-in for Workbench, now is the right time to get started! We will be updating the documentation in the next week or 2 with all the details on how to write your own plug-in.

MySQL Workbench designed in a modular way and is fully scriptable. Whenever you have to perform repetitive tasks or e.g. need to export your Workbench models tailored for your coding environment, writing a plugin to perform this task is the way to go. Python …

Our Universe is full of ironies. But some ironies are just too hard to take.

As you may have guessed (!!!), I am an avid Linux developer and user. Though once upon a time I did develop under Windows. Yes, believe it. And on one particular case, I got to be on a first-name basis with some of the Microsoft Software Engineers to resolve issues we were having with their OLE crap — what the Holy Gods of Microsoft decided to redub as “Active-X”.

But I digress. For the past 10 years, I have been solid Linux and have defenestrated Windows for the most part. But as you know, you can never really completely eliminate Windows.  Despite your best efforts, it will always be (for now, at least) the 500 pound gorilla in any room you care to be in. The installed software base there is just staggering, and most have no Linux options.

But then that’s why projects like Wine and the many wonderful hypervisors …

Announcing a new beta 10 release of MySQL Workbench. Version 5.2.20 includes new fixes for 49 bugs (P1 – 1, P2 – 7 , P3 – 39, P4 – 2)

A few new tips you might try. Some have been in the last 2 betas – but in case you haven’t noticed:

1. Once connected in SQL Editor – type control-T or command-T to add a new editor Tab
2. In the SQL Editor run a select. Highlight a cell (one with an image blob preferably) and right click (or command click) and select “Open Value in Viewer” or another option.
3. In a results set — select multiple rows — right click and “copy row content”
4. Click on snippets. Click on the selector and look at DDL and DML lists.
5. Add your own snippets selection drop down option by creating an empty file in the snippets folder and re-opening Workbench.

For example on Windows …

C:\Documents and Settings\<your …

Just one week after the latest Beta we are now releasing the next followup build WB 5.2.19 that again fixes a number of issues found in the last Betas. Since beta 8 we were able to close another 32 bugs (P1 – 2, P2 – 4 , P3 – 26).

A big “thank you” to all the people who have been testing MySQL Workbench 5.2 alphas and betas and taking the time to file bugs and provide valuable feedback.

MySQL Workbench 5.2 Beta 5 provides:

1. Data Modeling
2. Query (upgrade from MySQL Query Browser)
3. Admin (upgrade from MySQL Administrator)

if you are a current user of MySQL Query Browser or MySQL Administrator, we look forward to your feedback on all the new capabilities we are delivering in a single unified MySQL Workbench

As always, you will find binaries for the various platforms on our download pages.

Please get your copy from our Download

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We’re proud to announce Beta 8 of MySQL Workbench 5.2.
Since beta 7 we have fixed additional bugs as well as put in some improvements requested by the community so we decided to pack up another release for you to check out. This Beta includes fixes for 35 bugs (P1 – 1, P2 – 10 , P3 – 24)

Also we have added new HUD-style (FADE IN) UI elements to show wait-times while WB is setting up connections (currentlz windows only, will be added to linux/mac in next release).

Additionally we have added Connection-/Instance-sorting, now you can go to the connection/instance manager and sort using up/down buttons.

For more on these new features check out http://wb.mysql.com

A big “thank you” to all the people who have been testing MySQL Workbench 5.2 alphas and betas and taking the time to file bugs and provide valuable feedback. We have fixed many bugs since last release and worked on some other details as …

We are proud to announce Beta 7 (5.2.17).
As you will see, for Beta 7 we focused on UI and usability.

This Beta includes:

• Fixes for 69 bugs.
  • P1 -4, P2 – 21 , P3 – 41 and P4 – 3.
• New Windows UI components
• New “look” for windows version
• Modern style tab-controls
• New UI, toolbars and sidebar-placements
• Easier to use
• Improved look and feel
• Distinct User Snippets
• Pre-Loaded DML and DDL Snippet Libraries
• SQL Editor
  • All DDL Statements for changes are available.
  • Results menu bar
• In Output
  • added Details Pane for Action and Message

And there’s more, so check it out and see for yourself.

For more on these new features check out …

Last week a customer called me and reported that MySQL was 30 times slower than MS SQL server. Oooops. That's a lot. No way to argue or throw smoke bombs. 30 times slower! It was a standard installation of MySQL (typical install option) on plain Windows 7 and the same for MS SQL Server 2008. The test run was a batch of 30.000 INSERT commands in an SQL script. Runtime was 1 minute on MSSQL and 30 minutes on MySQL. Some tests later we found out that it was only bad on InnoDB. MyISAM was as fast as MSSQL. (I didn't care which one was a bit faster. I didn't care as long as InnoDB was 30 times slower) Finally we nailed the problem down to one parameter in MySQL: innodb_flush_log_at_trx_commit Each INSERT statement is a single transaction (autocommit mode). MySQL is configured very faithfully and ensures that each …

We have published a new beta release of Version 5.2.16 Workbench Beta 6 build includes fixes for 67 bugs.

In Beta 6 we’ve also responded to great community ideas and feedback with various new convenience and security features:

1. Saving your profile/connection passwords in OSX keychain, gnome-keyring or – for windows – in a encrypted password-vault-file.
2. New rapid development features for generating complete SQL Select/DML statements or names for selected objects in Query Editor to either the query area or clipboard.
3. New in the Windows version (coming to Mac and Linux soon) the ability to set a preference for the placement of the sidebar in the Query Editor (left or right side.)
4. And last but not least, we put a good bit of focus on optimizing and stabilizing the administrator components.

We want to thank all the people who have been testing MySQL Workbench 5.2 alphas …

In case if you working on Windows environment for MySQL development (sometimes I use visual studio for easy debugging); and in case if you change the parser code (sql_yacc.yy) or if you are working directly from development branch (bzr launchpad), then the build breaks to generate the yacc files (sql_yacc.h and sql_yacc.cc) with an error bison: M4: Invalid argument as shown below:

      1>------ Build started: Project: sql, Configuration: Debug Win32 ------
1>Generating sql_yacc.h, sql_yacc.cc
2>------ Build started: Project: GenServerSource, Configuration: Debug Win32 ------
2>Generating sql_yacc.h, sql_yacc.cc
1>bison: m4: Invalid argument
1>Project : error PRJ0019: A tool returned an error code from "Generating sql_yacc.h, sql_yacc.cc"
1>sql - 1 error(s), 0 warning(s)
2>bison: m4: Invalid argument …

Dear MySQL Users,

Its only been a week since last release, and already the MySQL Workbench Team has a 5.2 beta 5 ready. This Workbench Beta 5 build includes fixes for 26 bugs – 5 P1, 8 P2, 9 P3 and 4 P4.

We want to thank all the people who have been testing MySQL Workbench 5.2 alphas and betas and taking the time to file bugs and provide valuable feedback. We have fixed many bugs since last release and worked on some other details as well.
MySQL Workbench 5.2 Beta 5 provides:

1. Data Modeling
2. Query (upgrade from MySQL Query Browser)
3. Admin (upgrade from MySQL Administrator)

If you are a current user of MySQL Query Browser or MySQL Administrator, we look forward to your feedback on all the new capabilities we are delivering in a single unified MySQL Workbench

As always, you will find binaries for the various platforms on our download pages.

Please get …