Reggie Burnett, the lead behind MySQL Connector/NET, will be presenting a MySQL webinar, "For ISVs: ADO.NET Entity Framework for MySQL", tomorrow at 10 Pacific Time!

Among other topics, Reggie will discuss how to

• Develop your application against SQL Server and then switch it to MySQL with zero code changes

• Optimize your database schema without requiring any code changes in your application

• Use LinQ syntax for type safety in your applications

(Interest in using MySQL on Windows is growing. The 2008 MySQL OEM Annual Survey, which closed in March 2009, shows that some 73% of MySQL OEM customers develop …

I just finished reading Joel Spolskys book "Joel on Software", and I had a good and interesting read I have to say. This doesn't mean that I agree with everything in this, by now a bit dated, published in 2004 and as it is a collection of writings from Spolskys website www.joelonsoftware.com, it is more dated than that.

Spolsky writes in a rather humorous, witty style, and he is very opinionated and has strong opinions on many things. And he sometimes hits some rather minor issue which he dislikes with a baseball bat. But I enjoyed reading the book, it was a fun read and it got me thinking on issues, even though I didn't agree with Spolsky always, frankly, most of the time I didn't (he's not too hot on Open Source for example, and gives examples why it's not going to work, and we now know, as the book is dated, how things went. And he was wrong). But the deal with this book …

We just announced the latest MySQL Workbench 5.1 release, 5.1.16. This release was labeled GA, which means that everybody using WB 5.0 or an earlier version of WB 5.1 is recommended update to WB 5.1.16.

We are now putting our main focus on the WB 5.1 branch and will continue to provide rapid update releases during the next months. Please report any hidden issues you may still find on our bug-tracker bugs.mysql.com so we can take care of those quickly.

After the dust settles we will also continue to work on WB 5.2 in parallel, to give you query & administrative functionality within a single, powerful but easy to use tool.

Happy schema designing with MySQL Workbench 5.1!

We’re proud to announce the first General Availability build of our database development tool MySQL Workbench. Version 5.1.16 is now available on our download-servers. On our final run towards GA release of version 5.1 we managed to close 13 bugs and a couple of small issues still found in our previous release. Details on latest changes can be found on our Releases Page. Starting with this release, we recommend to switch from your Workbench 5.0 installation right to the new release (if you haven’t yet) - 5.1 is now our current stable release.

The files for different platforms have been pushed to our main server and will be globally available on our mirrors during the next hours. Please get your copy form our Download page:

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We’re proud to announce the availability of our 3rd Release Candidate of MySQL Workbench 5.1. This is the last Release Candidate before 5.1 is released as GA. We keep optimizing and improving the functionality and brushing the last rough corners to be able to provide a shiny Workbench 5.1 GA next week. You can find the details as always on this release on our Releases Page.

Head right over to our Download page to give this last development build a try:

http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/workbench/5.1.html

If you encounter any problems, please report them to our bugtracker. Feel free to contact us any time on IRC (irc.freenode.net, #workbench) for any questions or infos.

- The Workbench Team

You can download the MySQL database from the MySQL website http://www.mysql.com by clicking on the downloads tab. Scroll down to the MySQL database server & standard clients section and select the latest production release of MySQL, 5.1.35 at the time of writing.

Installation of MySQL Server

Unzip the setup file and execute the downloaded MSI file. Follow the instructions below exactly when installing MySQL Server:


Click on the "setup"




Perform a typical installation



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We’ve just released the second RC of the cross-platform version of MySQL Workbench. Version 5.1.14 is now available for download. We closed 5 bugs since last week and worked on more refinements. For the complete list of changes please take a look at our Releases Page.

Please head over to our Download page to give this release a try:

http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/workbench/5.1.html

End of next week we are going to build another RC release before we’re preparing the final GA release of Version 5.1. If you find bugs, please post it to our bugtracker. Feel free to contact us on IRC (irc.freenode.net, #workbench) for any questions or infos.

- The Workbench Team

I figured that it was time to check out how to install, configure, run and use MySQL Cluster on Windows. To keep things simple, this first Cluster will all run on a single host but includes these nodes:

• 1 Management node (ndb_mgmd)
• 2 Data nodes (ndbd)
• 3 MySQL Server (API) nodes (mysqld)

Downloading and installing

Browse to the Windows section of the MySQL Cluster 7.0 download page and download the installer (32 or 64 bit).

MySQL Cluster Windows Installer

Run the .msi file and choose the “Custom” option. Don’t worry about the fact that it’s branded as “MySQL Server 7.0″ and that you’ll go on to see adverts for MySQL Enterprise – that’s just an artefact …

If you’re having trouble installing MySQL 5.1 on a Windows server, I’d recommend the following process.  Don’t skip the first steps that describe the uninstall and removal of the previous install as this seems to clear up most issues.   For the uninstall, I’d recommend manually deleting data files.  Caution: deleting the data files will delete any data previously entered into MySQL.

1.  Remove previous MySQL installs (and remnants)

a.  Stop the MySQL service ( Start | Control Panel | Administrative Tools | Services)

b.  Remove MySQL using Windows Add or Remove Programs (Start | Control Panel | Add or Remove Programs)

c.  Clean up (delete) the data directory  (assuming that you don’t have data that you need) c:\documents and settings\all users\application data\mysql
 

d.  Clean up (delete) any remaining …

We are proud to announce the release our first Release Candidate of Workbench 5.1. After publishing another alpha version of Workbench 5.2 (the version that will include querying and administration) we have concentrated on getting 5.1 closer to GA. We have fixed 45 bugs since our last beta release and the last tweaks planned for the final product are in place now.

We are now tightening our release circle while moving closer to the planned GA date of the 5.1 version. We will release two additional Release Candidates at the end of upcoming two weeks and plan to complete the final GA build by the end of June - on all our major platforms.

Please head over to our Download page to get the new release and give it a try:

http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/workbench/5.1.html

For the complete list of …