Devart, a vendor of native connectivity solutions and development tools for Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, InterBase, Firebird, and SQLite databases, has announced the release of dbForge Schema Compare for SQL Server 1.50, a sophisticated tool specially designed to meet a diversity of comparison tasks, help analyze schema differences at a glance, and synchronize them correctly, saving time and efforts.

With the new release, Devart continues its dedication to providing a line of safe as well as powerful tools for SQL Server database synchronization.

The highlights of Schema Compare for SQL Server 1.50 include:

* Table data verification after synchronization

dbForge Schema Compare for SQL Server 1.50 moves forward in delivering safe synchronization. The present-day market, saturated with all sorts of …

We’re happy to announce the availability of the next Alpha release of MySQL Workbench 5.2. There have been further improvements to the querying part and we added the foundations for the administration part (which will be onboard in the next alpha).
On startup, MySQL Workbench 5.2 now doesn’t automatically create a new design-document anymore – thats for decreasing resource-usage when you only launch Workbench for running a few queries against your database. Also the fix to make Workbench work on Snow Leopard has been included in 5.2 now as well.

Please download the program, take it for a test-drive and tell us what you think. But keep in mind, that this is still an alpha version – so be advised to not use it for production data! Also please note, MySQL Workbench files saved with version 5.2 cannot be opened with previous versions of our
program.

For Linux we now …

Devart announced the release of dbForge Query Builder for MySQL v 1.10, a professional tool for quick creation of any queries without code and extended management of query results.

The highlights of Query Builder for MySQL v 1.10 include:

Unlimited database connectivity

To provide more flexibility, dbForge Query Builder for MySQL v 1.10 offers two more approaches to connect to a database in addition to a direct connection. When you can’t connect to the MySQL Server directly or need secure transmitting of private data, you can leverage secure connections based on SSL and SSH protocols.

The latest version takes care about web developers working with remote databases and offers HTTP tunneling with simple tunneling script uploading to the web site. Employment of remote …

We are proud to announce the next service release of MySQL Workbench 5.1.18. We have fixed another set of bugs and made some improvements you people have been asking for. We have optimized the layout of the Columns-section in our table-editor considering the ideas and exeriences you posted in feature requests, bug-reports and on the forums. Now it should provide a smoother more comfortable workflow.
As already reported in previous blog-posts, this version is also compatible with Apples recently released version of OSX – 10.6 Snow Leopard.
Detailed information on the fixes can be found on our Releases Page.

The new files are available on our download page:

http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/workbench/5.1.html

If you encounter problems or have any questions, you …

As all you Mac users (and probably many non-Macies) know Apple released Snow Leopard (Mac OS X 10.6) recently, even though this release was announced for September previously. Since a large part of the MySQL Workbench user base works on OS X it was clear that many of you will test Workbench on the new OS. However, so far we haven’t had the opportunity to do the same (too busy fixing bugs on released OSes) and hence we did not know about incompatibility problems there.

In the meantime several users did tests and reported us a crash on startup of the application, which means you cannot use MySQL Workbench on Snow Leopard for the time being. We are currently preparing build, test and developer machines with it and will hand out a fixed WB release as soon as possible. So, please stay patient. It’s only a matter of days.

This is the first post on the brand spanking new MMM for MySQL Community Blog. Expect posts on new features for this great project. Expect user experiences.

So, your question is of course: what is MMM for MySQL and why haven't I heard of this before?

Well, MMM for MySQL is a project that strives to provide a HA Solution for MySQL, with automatic failover between multiple masters and slaves. If set up properly, you don't have to worry anymore over downtime for upgrading to a new version of MySQL, or a new version of your application (=> large alter tables, addition of indexes, etc.)

The project has recently reached it's version 2, which is a complete rewrite from scratch. We are now slowly seeing this being put into production, with some success stories making us happy already.

I won't make it too long here, but look forward to hear more from us!

We’re proud to announce the first service release of our current GA product MySQL Workbench 5.1. This maintenance release encompasses a number of stability, performance and quality improvements.
We were able to fix 56 bugs – as always, details on latest changes can be found on our Releases Page.

Please head over to our download page and fetch this new update:

http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/workbench/5.1.html

In addition to the improvements on the application, we also updated our packaging procedure to provide a more up to date selection of packages for recent distributions. Along with the Windows and OSX (intel) binaries we now provide binaries for the following Linux distributions:

Ubuntu 8.04  …

Optimized tool facilitates database developers and web masters to efficiently work with remote databases at a lower cost with a greater speed.

Devart today announced the release of dbForge Studio for MySQL v 3.60, a cutting-edge tool for administration and development of MySQL databases.

The new upgrade is the contemporary answer for common bottlenecks originated from employing remote
MySQL Servers while developing, updating, and using modern large databases. dbForge Studio for MySQL v 3.60 offers new freedom for those who work with large schemas and data amounts especially in cases of using remote MySQL servers, for example serving web sites.

Unlimited database connectivity

It is good news for web developers working with remote databases, as employment of remote connections becomes as simple as …

Reggie Burnett, the lead behind MySQL Connector/NET, will be presenting a MySQL webinar, "For ISVs: ADO.NET Entity Framework for MySQL", tomorrow at 10 Pacific Time!

Among other topics, Reggie will discuss how to

• Develop your application against SQL Server and then switch it to MySQL with zero code changes

• Optimize your database schema without requiring any code changes in your application

• Use LinQ syntax for type safety in your applications

(Interest in using MySQL on Windows is growing. The 2008 MySQL OEM Annual Survey, which closed in March 2009, shows that some 73% of MySQL OEM customers develop …

Reggie Burnett, the lead behind MySQL Connector/NET, will be presenting a MySQL webinar, "For ISVs: ADO.NET Entity Framework for MySQL", tomorrow at 10 Pacific Time!

Among other topics, Reggie will discuss how to

• Develop your application against SQL Server and then switch it to MySQL with zero code changes

• Optimize your database schema without requiring any code changes in your application

• Use LinQ syntax for type safety in your applications

(Interest in using MySQL on Windows is growing. The 2008 MySQL OEM Annual Survey, which closed in March 2009, shows that some 73% of MySQL OEM customers develop …