The latest from the MySQL community

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.

We are proud to announce our first MySQL for Excel video is now available at the MySQL youtube channel.

Please give it an eye and get to know about the main features of MySQL for Excel (Import, Export, Append and Edit).

To view the video on youtube click over the image shown in below:

We always look forward to hear what new features you will like to see on future versions of MySQL for Excel so we encourage you to please visit our forum and let us know. Also, follow us at:

• Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/mysql
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Dear MySQL users,

We are proud to announce that we have made the open source version of our Connector/NET 6.8.3 is available as official MySQL Nuget packages.

Currently we have 3 nuget packages which contain:

• MySQL Connector/NET Core
• MySQL Connector/NET for Entity Framework 6
• MySQL Connector/NET Web providers

Mats Kindahl of Oracle is lead developer of MySQL Fabric

MySQL Fabric is an integrated framework for managing farms of MySQL servers with support for both high-availability and sharding. Its development has been spearheaded by Mats Kindahl, senior principal software developer in MySQL at Oracle.

Mats is leading the MySQL Scaling and High-Availability effort covering the newly released MySQL Fabric and the MySQL Applier for Hadoop. He is also the architect and implementer of several features (mostly replication features), including the row-based replication available in 5.1 and the binary log group commit available in MySQL 5.6. Before starting MySQL he earned a doctoral degree in the area of automated verification of distributed systems and worked with implementation of C and C++ compilers.

He’ll be presenting at next month’s …

Somebody asked me if there was a cheaper alternative to using the Embarcadero Data Architect (a data modeling tool). I said sure, you can use the MySQL Workbench. My friend laughed and said, it’s to model Oracle databases and they use different data types. I broke the news to him that he can create his own user defined types and use MySQL Workbench to model problems for the Oracle Database 11g.

For example, you can launch the MySQL Workbench, and click on the Model menu option, and in the menu window click on the User Defined Types choice, as shown in the following:

Choosing the User Defined Type option, launches the following form. You can enter customized user defined types in the User Defined Types module:

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This week we released MySQL Connector/Python v1.1.6 has been released with a fix for the Django backend. If you  wonder (or not?) where Connector/Python v1.1.5, it got released a few weeks ago. Yes, PyPi has been updated! Don’t forget to use –allow-external using newest pip.

Some useful links:

• Documentation: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/connector-python/en/index.html
• Release Notes:  …