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 …

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 three_attempts …

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 three_attempts …

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).

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 be robust and long-lived.

We are …

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 ,  these are the most common scenarios.

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 can be found at …