This is the second part of two series of blog posts to setup a SSH connection on Windows from scratch. The first part can be found here.
This article describes in step by step fashion a guide on how to create and configure a SSH Tunnel with port forwarding to a remote MySQL server running FreeSSHd on Windows using Putty locally.

The MySQL Windows Experience Team is proud to announce the release of MySQL for Excel version 1.2.0, the  latest addition to the MySQL Installer for Windows.

MySQL for Excel is an application plug-in enabling data analysts to very easily access and manipulate MySQL data within Microsoft Excel. It enables you to directly work with a MySQL database from within Microsoft Excel so you can easily do tasks such as:

• Importing MySQL Data into Excel
• Exporting Excel data directly into MySQL to a new or existing table
• Editing MySQL data directly within Excel

MySQL for Excel is installed using the MySQL Installer for Windows. You can download MySQL Installer from our official Downloads page at http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/installer/.

Oracle is the most powerful DBMS in the world. However, Oracle's expensive and complex replication makes it difficult to build highly available applications or move data in real-time to data warehouses and popular databases like MySQL. In this webinar-on-demand you will learn how Continuent Tungsten solves problems with Oracle replication at a fraction of the cost of other solutions and with less

The Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo 2014 is just two months away. I’m very excited about this year’s event which continues our tradition of open technical discussions and inviting all parties to the table.

We have a great amount of technical talks from Oracle – I’m especially excited about future-focused talks shedding some light about what to expect in MySQL 5.7 and beyond. This content is best covered by developers actually designing the system and writing the code. We also have great coverage of MySQL alternatives from Percona and MariaDB. You can view the entire program here.

It is great to see well-rounded coverage of many …

The MariaDB CONNECT Storage Engine allows to access heterogeneous data sources. In my previous post I show you how to use the MariaDB CONNECT Storage Engine to access an Oracle database. This is quite easy through the CONNECT Storage Engine ODBC table type.

For most architectures where heterogeneous databases are involved an ETL (Extract-Transform-Load) is [...]

This article describes in step by step fashion a guide on how to install and configure a SSH server in a MySQL server running on Windows using FreeSSHd. 

MySQL's architecture and features make the database a great fit for cloud based deployments. If you are interested in using MySQL to deliver web-based applications and scale out, read the white paper MySQL, An Ideal Choice in the Cloud.

As a first step to using the MySQL database, take the MySQL for Beginners course. In this 4-day course, you learn to use the MySQL Server and tools while developing a knowledge of relational databases. You can take this course through the following delivery methods:

• Training-on-Demand: Start training within 24 hours of registering and train at your own pace.
• Live-Virtual Event: Follow a live …

MySQL for Visual Studio is a new product including all of the Visual Studio integration previously available as part of Connector/Net.  The 1.1.3 version is now released as GA and is appropriate for use in production environments.  It is compatible with MySQL Server versions 5.0-5.7 and Visual Studio versions 2008 to 2013.

This post is about one of the new features included in the latest MySQL for Excel release to date (1.2.0) which can be Installed directly from our MySQL Installer.

Since the first release you were allowed to Import and Append data from Excel to a MySQL database, and also to import data from the MySQL database to an Excel Worksheet.
All these windows handle small previews of the data you were working with, and some settings about how the data should be treated can be found by clicking the Advanced Options button on them.

The problem many users found was that sometimes when they changed these options, the small previews did not reflected the changes being made on them, and they had to close and reopen the windows to see if their changes were what they actually wanted or how the data was being treated with the new format.

Now on this …

My old team here at Oracle looking for talented, experienced MySQL experts to join the amazing MySQL Support Team.  I was lucky enough to join this great group of people over seven years ago, and while my responsibilities have shifted to other areas with the MySQL team at Oracle, I still join the team’s chat channel daily (where they’ve revoked my vowel and address me as “t*dd” to highlight my treachery in leaving the team).   I don’t know that it’s possible to find a better group of colleagues to work with than can be found in the MySQL Support Team.

The work itself is exciting – if you like solving problems, this is an incredible job.  I’m not talking about finding and quoting applicable sections of the MySQL reference manual.  I’m talking about owning customer problems like they are your own, taking the time to understand what’s really needed, and investing the (sometimes considerable) energy …