Dear MySQL Users,

Its only been a week since last release, and already the MySQL Workbench Team has a 5.2 beta 5 ready. This Workbench Beta 5 build includes fixes for 26 bugs – 5 P1, 8 P2, 9 P3 and 4 P4.

We want to thank 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 well.
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 …

We are proud to announce the 4th public Beta of MySQL Workbench 5.2.

We want to thank 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 well. Also, there is new platform included with this beta – CentOS 5.4 Linux Packages (RPMs)
NOTE: We have a known issue with Centos SSH Tunnel support that we are working on so avoid that for now.

This build includes fixes for 65 bugs – 7 P1, 26 P2 and 32 P3.

MySQL Workbench 5.2 Beta 3 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 …

Dear MySQL Users,

We are proud to announce public Beta 3 of MySQL Workbench 5.2.

First off, again 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 another pile of bugs and included some minor changes in some of the workflows. We have upgraded our linux packages and are now serving packages for Fedora 12 and Ubuntu 9.10.

This build includes fixes for 54 bugs – 9 P1, 28 P2 and 17 P3.

MySQL Workbench 5.2 Beta 3 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 …

Devart today previewed dbForge Studio for MySQL 4.00, scheduled for release this December, and announced the immediate availability of a beta release that supplies database-dealing people with the very data management capabilities they want.

Having accumulated extensive knowledge in data management preferences and routines, Devart has created dbForge Studio for MySQL 4.00 Beta that predicts and delivers expected capabilities in any phase of dealing with data. The users can manage the data from soup to nuts in one place and with the same little effort as usual.

The highlights of dbForge Studio for MySQL 4.00 Beta include:

• Data Import. Guided by a click-and-pick wizard, the users can easily import data from seven widely-popular formats (CSV, DBF, MS Access, MS Excel, ODBC, Text, XML) with a multitude of settings to …

Dear MySQL Users,

We are proud to announce public Beta 2 of MySQL Workbench 5.2.

We want to thank all the people who tried MySQL Workbench 5.2 alphas and beta 1 and helped us out by filing bugs and providing valuable feedback.
The team has put in an all out effort to fix those reported bugs and enhance performance.

This build includes fixes for 54 bugs – 18 P1, 19 P2, 13 P3 and 2 P4 – as well as a few new features and some added fine tuning.

MySQL Workbench 5.2 Beta 2 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 …

Dear MySQL Users,

We are proud to announce that we have reached the Beta 1 for MySQL Workbench 5.2. Beta 1 is “functionally complete” and shows the new features for the upcoming version of Workbench GUI product.

The team has worked very hard to reach the goal of including all our new features within this first public beta version. We know there is still a lot of fine tuning and stabilization to be done over the coming weeks to get it solid on all platforms, but this release marks an important milestone.  Your beta feedback is key to this.

MySQL Workbench 5.2 Beta 1 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 …

We know all too well that everyone has problems with their databases. We want to hear about your database problems, and if you tell us about them, you could win a RethinkDB sweatshirt. We’re working hard to make RethinkDB as fast, scalable, and flexible as possible. We don’t do this with magic, but by designing RethinkDB for today’s hardware and access patterns. You can help by giving us a clearer picture of what kind of hardware you’re using and what kind of workloads you’re experiencing. You can find the survey at http://www.rethinkdb.com/survey/. The best responses will get an awesome new RethinkDB sweatshirt, so you can be the envy of all your friends! If you’d like us to follow up with you, make sure to check off the last question in the survey. If you’re in the Bay Area, we might even buy you lunch. Scalability demands, rising hardware costs, administration woes, and performance concerns are all fair game. We’re here for you, so …

Hello folks, we have just released another alpha-version of MySQL Workbench 5.2. This release now contains another couple of Administration features like “Managing your user accounts”, “Viewing your log tables”, improved start/stop scripts for remote administration (administration of remote servers is working in the mac and linux version of MySQL Workbench 5.2.6 – the windows version needs yet a bit more tweaking on that park, so that will be available in next release). Please note that 5.2.5 was an internal only release.

Head right over to our download pages and grab a copy to check out current functionality hands on. Please keep in mind, that this is still an alpha version – so do not use it on production data/servers! Also please note, MySQL Workbench files saved with version 5.2 cannot be opened with …

We’re proud to announce the availability of the next Alpha release of MySQL Workbench 5.2.
This is the first release of WB 5.2 that enables part of the upcoming administrative feature set. The following tasks can be performed in the WB 5.2.4 release:

• Registration of Server Profiles
• Start/Stop of the MySQL Server
• Configuration File Edition (my.cnf / my.ini)
• Show Connections and Server-variables

Further we have added the long awaited SSH Tunnel features that enables MySQL connections to machines where only SSH access is available.
Select the new Connection Method “Standard TCP/IP over SSH” in the Connection Management dialog and fill out the SSH connection information.

More information about the new features is coming up here on our blog pages.

Please fetch your copy, try the new features and tell us if you like it or what we can improve. But …

A very wise systems programmer once told me: “Don’t guess. Measure.” Since then, I’ve learned the hard way that guessing too much about performance is death by a thousand cuts. For RethinkDB, dozens of factors for I/O alone affect performance (not to mention memory, buses, caches, and CPU cores). In order to design the fastest database on Earth, we constantly test the following factors:

• Performance of read and write operations.
• Behavior for random and sequential workloads:
  • For random workloads, the behavior of uniform, normal, and power distributions (with different distribution parameters).
  • For sequential workloads, the seek direction and various strides .
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