We’re proud to announce the next release of MySQL Workbench, version 5.2.29. This maintenance release focuses on general product improvement and usability.

As always, we want to thank everyone for the great feedback we have received. This helps us to continuously improve and extend the functionality and stability of MySQL Workbench – please keep up on approaching us with any ideas to develop our product even further.

New Workbench 5.2.29 Preference/Feature

Say you have been working on a model for hours in Workbench, and you haven’t saved in the last 90 minutes, suddenly the power goes out (or some other force majeure). Now with 5.2.29, if Workbench unexpectedly quits during modeling, the model you were working on will be restored to the last auto-saved version the next time you open that model.
As always, please remember to save and version your models regularly.
Also – you can change the value of …

We’re proud to announce the next release of MySQL Workbench, version 5.2.28. This maintenance release features improvements to the Workbench scripting Shell as well as various fixes.

Enhancements to the Workbench 5.2.28 Scripting Shell makes development and usage of Workbench Scripts and Plug-ins easier by

• Providing a new workbench shell scripting file browser
• Allowing users to more easily create/edit/save/execute Workbench python and lua scripts
• Including Handy Workbench “Scripting” snippets that can easily be executed or copied.
• Adding a new script results output panel

For more on Workbench Scripting and Plug-in development see

http://wb.mysql.com/?page_id=664

As always, we want to thank everyone for the great feedback we have received. This helps us to continuously improve and extend …

We’re proud to announce the next release of MySQL Workbench, version 5.2.27. This is the second maintenance release for 5.2 GA (Generally Available). This maintenance release does not introduce any new features, but focuses on general product improvement and usability.  We hope you will make MySQL Workbench your preferred tool for Design, Development, and Administration of your MySQL database applications.

As always, we want to thank everyone for the great feedback we have received. This helps us to continuously improve and extend the functionality and stability of MySQL Workbench – please keep up on approaching us with any ideas to develop our product even further.

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 …

We’re happy to announce the release of MySQL Workbench 5.2.26. This is the first maintenance release for 5.2 GA (Generally Available). We have fixed a number of bugs and made some improvements under the hood. We hope you will make MySQL Workbench your preferred tool for Design, Development, and Administration of your MySQL database applications.

We want to thank everyone for the great feedback we have received. This helps us to continuously improve and extend the functionality and stability of MySQL Workbench – please keep up on approaching us with any ideas to develop our product even further.

MySQL Workbench 5.2 GA

• Data Modeling
• Query (replaces the old MySQL Query
• 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. …

Dear MySQL Users,

We’re happy to announce the second Release Candidate (RC) of MySQL Workbench.
Version 5.2.22 includes fixes for 76 bugs.

In case you didn’t know – MySQL Workbench is a modular product and is fully pluggable and scriptable. If you want to write a plug-in for Workbench 5.2, then stay tuned as we will be updating the documentation in the next week with all the details and examples you need on how to write your own plug-ins.

Plug-ins are great for extending or adding to workbench or for automating repetitive tasks. You can do things like adding to menus, exporting your Workbench models custom tailored for your coding environment, adding your own forms, and more. Python is our preferred scripting language but for simple scripts the Lua language can be used as well.

The first plug-in we added is called MySQL Doc Library. It can be used to read the MySQL Documentation offline and features …

This is part four of an ongoing series about my experiences while writing the MySQL Admin Cookbook for Packt Publishing. All previous parts can be found under the mysql-admin-cookbook label.

This part will be about more software used in the process of writing the book. The last episode covered writing tools, file/version management and backups. What's up now is graphics programs, virtualization and PDF handling.

Outlining

For outlining and structuring thoughts I like mind-maps. I know they are not for everyone, but if you like them and do not want to spend a lot of money on …

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 …

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 …