The MySQL Windows Experience Team is proud to announce the release of MySQL for Excel version 1.2.1.

MySQL for Excel 1.2.1 is a maintenance release for 1.2.x containing a handful of bug fixes and the following minor features:

• When MySQL Workbench is not installed, MySQL connections are now automatically created for discovered MySQL services. If MySQL Workbench is later installed, these connections are not migrated over to MySQL Workbench as MySQL Workbench also creates connections for discovered MySQL services.

You can download MySQL for Excel 1.2.1 from our official Downloads page at http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/windows/excel as a standalone MSI, and it will be available shortly in the MySQL Installer for Windows that can be downloaded from …

I will be speaking about MySQL at the Bulgarian Oracle Users Group's Spring Conference.

In furthering my mission to increase the MySQL knowledge among my countrymen I will try to give the grand tour of all the modern MySQL administrative and development tools that the MySQL team provides.

This will be the 3d BGOUG conference I'm speaking to. And I expect no less than the stellar organization and the great audience that I had the privilege to interact with during the previous 2 conferences.

We had a lot of fun too ! Parties from the last 2 conferences are …

Today we're going to talk about one of the main features in MySQL for Excel. There may be times when you have a MySQL Database table that you want to add new rows to. In this blog post we're going to show you how you can do that from within Excel directly easily using the Append Excel Data to Table feature.

Always remember MySQL for Excel can be downloaded and installed directly for free, from our MySQL Installer downloads page.

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Continuent, a leading provider of database clustering and replication software has five (5) new positions open:

Build/Test Engineer Senior Database Availability and Clustering Engineer Senior Database Replication Engineer Data Replication Sales Engineer Clustering and Replication Test Development Engineer

If you want to get in on the ground floor of a growing company in a challenging field

The next MySQL User Group NL meetup is this Tuesday at the Oracle office in Utrecht.

For more info go to the Event page @ Meetup.com

MySQL for Visual Studio 1.1.4 was released including a new feature: MySQL Toolbar inside the Visual Studio environment. This post will cover the details on this new feature.

MySQL for Visual Studio is a product including all of the Visual Studio integration previously available as part of Connector/Net. Today we're releasing the 1.1.4 Maintenance Release of this product. It is a version suitable for production environments, compatible with Connector/Net 6.8.3 or further versions and supports MySQL server versions 5.0 to 5.6.

MySQL Enterprise Backup team is proud to announce the new release of MySQL Enterprise Backup (MEB) 3.10.0.

Security of backups and usability of backup tools form an important factor in taking successful backups. DBAs prefer to have tools that would help them in backup and restore without much overhead and also to help keep their backups protected. So in this release of MEB we have enhanced usability and added provision to take secured backups. In addition to this we have also provided enhancements to compressed backup.

Product New Features

MEB 3.10.0 is a major release with the following valuable features.

MySQL Enterprise Backup team is proud to announce the new release of MySQL Enterprise Backup (MEB) 3.10.0.

Security of backups and usability of backup tools form an important factor in taking successful backups. DBAs prefer to have tools that would help them in backup and restore without much overhead and also to help keep their backups protected. So in this release of MEB we have enhanced usability and added provision to take secured backups. In addition to this we have also provided enhancements to compressed backup.

Product New Features

MEB 3.10.0 is a major release with the following valuable features.

There may be times when you need to create a new table in MySQL and feed it with data from another database, the Internet or from combined data sources. MS Excel is commonly used as the bridge between those data sources and a target MySQL database because of the simplicity it offers to organize the information to then just dump it into a new MySQL table. Although the last bit sounds trivial, it may actually be a cumbersome step, creating ODBC connections within Excel through Microsoft Query may not help since these are normally created to extract data from MySQL into Excel, not the opposite. What if you could do this in a few clicks from within Excel after making your data ready for export to a MySQL database?

With MySQL for Excel you can do this and this guide will teach you how easy it is.