The MySQL Workbench team would like to announce the availability of the first Alpha release of MySQL Workbench 5.2.

The major new feature in MySQL Workbench 5.2 is the SQL IDE, which offers the ability to edit and execute queries on MySQL servers. The new SQL query editor, based on the Open Source Scintilla text editor component, offers full syntax highlighting and other advanced editing features. The SQL editor was also extended to perform live syntax checking, detecting and indicating any syntax errors in your SQL code even before executing them. The IDE also provides ability to browse and edit the contents of individual table rows.

Note, however, that as this is a development version, there are known and unknown issues that might prevent the smooth use of the application. Backup your models often and before opening them with this version as the file format has …

After a turbulent week, where a few of our team were presenting workbench at this years MySQL Users Conference, we have finally uploaded the next beta packages for you to try. We’ve further improved the handling of the application. The problem with the missing table editor in the mac package is fixed in this release as well.

Please grab the package of your choice at our download page and give it a try.

For those attending the MySQL Conference & Expo and interested in database schema design, please make sure to register for our free Workshops. We will not only have guru Mike Hillyer teaching everything essential you need to know about schema design, but also do lots of hands-on training with MySQL Workbench.

In addition you will get a Sneak Peak of the feature set that will be implemented in the next versions of MySQL Workbench. Let me share a few screenshots to grab your attention.

If you think you recognize what you see here and can guess the functionality, please post your speculations in the comments.

Same for this screenshot.

Happy guessing and I hope to see …

We have finally uploaded the next beta packages of our upcoming database design tool. We have fixed several bugs and added some enhancements that to the Interface. There’s a new editor for defining/maintaining User Defined Datatypes.

There are binary-packages for Windows, Mac OS X Leopard and Linux (Ubuntu and Fedora) as well as the zipped sources for building Workbench yourself. If you experience problems please let us know by filing bugs at http://bugs.mysql.com or contact us directly on via irc-client on irc.freenode.net channel #workbench.
Thank you all for your feedback and contribution. Fetch the new packages at our main download page and give it another try.

Everybody attending the MySQL Users Conference this year please mark your calenders! This is your chance to become a MySQL schema design expert as well as learn how to use Workbench from the experts.

We are going to do a free Workshop called “Introduction to Data Modeling with MySQL Workbench” on Tuesday - Thursday 3 - 4:30 PM in the Santa Clara Ballroom.

Some of the topics that will be covered:

• Database Schema Design
  • Get familiar with common concepts of database schema design
  • Learn to avoid typical mistakes (do-s & don’t-s)
  • Tricks how to resolve typical problems
  • Performance-tune your schemata

• MySQL Workbench
  • Get introduced to MySQL Workbench
  • Learn how to use MySQL …

If you are a Mac developer, interested in a new professional challenge and like what we have done with MySQL Workbench so far, please consider applying for our open position in the Workbench team.We are looking for an Objective-C / UI coding wunderkind who is also not easily scared by C++.

You can be located anywhere around the world, only hard requirements are that you are comfortable with working from home, have a decent internet connection and are not too far from an airport.We would be happy to have you on the team.

More details about the job below. To speed up the hire process please send your CV to workbench@sun.com. We are preferring people with open source background so please do not forget to include links to your open source work.

Job Summary:

Sun Microsystems is looking for a strong Mac UI developer with in-depth knowledge of Objective-C, C++, X-Code and the …

We are proud to announce the release of the first official Beta of MySQL Workbench 5.1, the next highly anticipated version of our database GUI tool - MySQL Workbench. For the first time we are making an announcement for all our major platforms at the same time: OSX, Linux and Windows.

MySQL Workbench 5.1 has some major improvement over our current 5.0 release, many of them might not be that visible when looking at the UI only. We did a major overhaul under the hood in addition to enhance usability and adding some features. On top of it, we moved some features to 5.1 OSS, that were only available in SE edition for 5.0 (like different notation styles i.e.). The editors have been tuned to startup more quickly, and some of them also got face lifted. All Wizards have been revamped using our new mForms library.

Please keep in mind that this is the first beta release of MySQL Workbench 5.1, and it’s not supposed to …

I finally received confirmation that I’m attending the MySQL Conference 2009, yay! I didn’t really dive deep into all the conference has to offer just because I didn’t want to get too excited and then not be able to go. Now that I do know I’m going, I’m full on with excitement and thought I [...]

Our download servers have just been loaded with the latest version of our current GA version of MySQL Workbench 5.0. We managed to close 27 bugs for this release. While 10 were actually fixed in code, we also re-validated many reports in our bug-DB and found 17 bug-reports which could be closed
as the reported issue has been fixed in the meantime. We also added some shortcut-keys to the wizard interfaces - it’s now possible to flip through the wizard pages (next, cancel, back) using shortcut key-combinations.

Please hop right to the download page and fetch the new release.

For those of you who haven’t heard, first go read this: Monty Leaves MySQL Now, let’s play for a bit I think this is a very interesting turn of events that took surprisingly long to happen. Now, what really is an interesting question to me is what will happen next? WARNING: Speculation alert! The following is a [...]