A call for suggestions for information and displays at the MySQL project stand at FOSDEM 2009

Come and meet us at the INTED2009 conference in Valencia, Spain in March of 2009. Walter has just been accepted to submit a paper and do an oral presentation during the conference. INTED is a conference about technology and education. From the INTED2009 website: “The general objective of the conference is to promote international collaboration in the fields [...]

Our Mac Developers have done an outstanding job in catching up with the Mac frontend. We have worked hard in the last days to get a little Christmas present out for all people waiting for a Mac Version of our Database Tool.
It’s a 1st alpha version, so don’t expect a full blown design application already - and the binary is Intel only this time (hey, it’s only Christmas folks ;).  But what we deliver is a working UI where you can load/save existing Workbench-documents and create diagrams from imported SQL-scripts. The canvas and the GRT system is up and running and there’s a shell which enables messing with the objects on GRT level. There are no object editors yet (so you can’t create and edit objects, but still build your diagrams for your existing SQL CREATE scripts) and wizards for exporting scripts, and connecting to databases are also missing. But enough writing, grab the .dmg package from our server and give it a try to get …

We’re closing in on features left to be implemented in 5.1 and keep improving on stability. All object editors are in place now (some of them still in a basic version though) and a bunch of memleaks has been fixed already. Additionally we now statically link the ctemplate-library and therefore you won’t have to care about installing/maintaining that package on your own anymore.

We provide bin and src packages for Ubuntu and Fedora9 (both 32bit) at the moment. Please grab the latest packages from our official download page and Test-drive our latest offspring. Let us know about any problems on using or building (also for other distributions) this alpha verison.

We’re happy to announce a new update of our MySQL Workbench 5.0. We’ve fixed a list of bugs (can be seen on our Release-Info-Page) and improved the table figures by adding the option to display column-properties like Not Null, Auto Increment and Unsigned directly on the Table Figure. This new feature is deactivated by default and can be switched on via the Options Dialog (Extras->Options, Diagram-Tab) by checking the Show Column Table Flags Option.

Get the latest version now: http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/workbench

Our work on the Linux version of Workbench 5.1 has made big progress, so we’re planning to publish a new Linux alpha update next week - stay tuned, penguins.

Devart company decided to publish roadmap of dbForge for MySQL line to help you understand the future product development. This roadmad encompasses two products: dbForge Studio for MySQL and dbForge Fusion for MySQL.

Below is the chronologically ordered list of features we plan to implement in the near future. Note that the list is not frozen and some items can be subject to change.

Database Diagram
Database diagram is a new type of document that represents visual layout of the database. It will implement online (directly to database) database object creation and modification. Here is a screenshot of this feature (currently under development).

Sample Database Diagram

Data Import
This feature will allow users to import data to database from most used …

We’ve packaged another alpha-version of our current work-in-progress version of workbench - version 5.1.4. We’ve added more features, fixed problems and started to build packages for Fedora Core 9 along with our binaries for Ubuntu 8.04.

MySQL Workbench OSS 5.1.4 Alpha - Linux

Source Tar Ball

ftp://ftp.mysql.com/pub/mysql/download/gui-tools/mysql-workbench-5.1.4alpha.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.mysql.com/pub/mysql/download/gui-tools/mysql-workbench-5.1.4alpha.tar.gz.md5

Binaries for Fedora Core 9

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This one was to planned to leave the hangar late last week, but a well hidden bug in the table-comparison kept us from finishing the release. But now it’s ready, the next release of our current GA release of MySQL Workbench, Version 5.0.26.
We did some minor tweaking on the UI - the property-pane now shows object-properties for objects on the MySQL-Model-Page too and we’re using another algorithm for the Autolayout-Feature (this needs to be optimized, it’s a basic implementation for now). Please check out the new version right from our main download page.

Thank you very much for the great reactions and contributions we received since we put our first alpha build out last week. We have incorporated patches submitted by the community and further improved some code (even though we’re currently busy sitting together at our Database Group Developer Meeting). So we’ve prepared the next packages and put them on our server. We also updated (cleaned up) the build instructions as to remove a few dependencies which are no longer necessary with the latest code. This should make building the source and running the binaries more easy.

MySQL Workbench OSS 5.1.2 Alpha - Linux

Source Tar Ball

ftp://ftp.mysql.com/pub/mysql/download/gui-tools/mysql-workbench-5.1.2-alpha-linux.tar.gz
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We’re proud to announce that we’ve just uploaded the first Linux-Alpha build for upcoming MySQL Workbench 5.1 for everyone to try. But beware, it’s an early Alpha release! It includes basic functionality like loading/saving Models, import/export SQL files and a set of basic editors to model your data-structures. A couple of features are still missing and the UI from a lot of things is not done yet but its purpose is to give you a chance to experience how WB will look and feel on your Linux Desktop.

We’re releasing this as a source package and in binary form compiled on Ubuntu 8.04. There’s a build-instructions
page available for Ubuntu as well. For later releases we’ll be providing more intructions/binary packages
for several more distributions.

MySQL Workbench OSS 5.1 Alpha 1 - Linux

Source Tar Ball

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