Hi, everyone. Just a quick note here to let you all know that we’ve just added Debian 8 support to our Apt repos. We have the latest MySQL Server 5.6 ready for you, as well as the latest 5.7 Development Milestone, and more of our products for Debian 8 are in our QA pipeline as […]

Dear MySQL users,

The MySQL developer tools team announces 6.3.3 as our GA release for
MySQL Workbench 6.3.

For the full list of changes in this revision, visit
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/workbench/en/changes-6-3.html

For detailed information about the new features, see What’s
New in MySQL Workbench 6.3
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/workbench/en/wb-what-is-new-63.html

For discussion, join the MySQL Workbench Forums:
http://forums.mysql.com/index.php?151

Download MySQL Workbench 6.3.3 GA now, for Windows, Mac OS X 10.7+,
Oracle Linux 6 and 7, Fedora 20 and Fedora 21, Ubuntu 14.04 and Ubuntu
14.10 …

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MySQL 5.7.6 brings in a simplification that solves the very first problem that I encountered back in the days when I first started using MySQL 5.0. Namely…

How do I create a new database instance?

I know it sounds like a very basic question. But as it turned out, the answer was not that simple. I tried mysqld --help. Nothing there. And then, after reading the manual and trying out the complex command line (including redirection) based steps a couple of times, I just resorted to employing the mysql-test-run.pl test suite driver to create the initial system tables and data for me.

Obviously this has …

Dear MySQL users,

The MySQL developer tools team announces 6.3.2 RC – the first release
candidate for MySQL Workbench 6.3.

For the full list of changes in this revision, visit
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/workbench/en/changes-6-3.html

For detailed information about the new features, see What’s
New in MySQL Workbench 6.3
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/workbench/en/wb-what-is-new-63.html

For discussion, join the MySQL Workbench Forums:
http://forums.mysql.com/index.php?151

Download MySQL Workbench 6.3.2 RC now, for Windows, Mac OS X 10.7+,
Oracle Linux 6 and 7, Fedora 20 and Fedora 21, Ubuntu 14.04 and …

Direct Schema Tree Action Buttons

The schema tree in the SQL Editor now has some very convenient buttons for accessing the most used functions for each object type:

• Table or Schema Inspector
• Object structure editor
• Table data browser/editor
• Call Stored Procedure or Function

Format Note Objects in Diagrams

Note objects in diagrams can now be resized and have its contents automatically rearranged. You can also change style attributes like font, background color and text color.

Other improvements and bug fixes that make a difference

MySQL password is remembered for the session, even if not …

MS Access Migration

MS Access support was added to the Migration Wizard in MySQL Workbench 6.2, joining MS SQL Server, Sybase ASE, Sybase SQL Anywhere, PostgreSQL, SQLite and “Generic ODBC” as migration sources. You can read more about it in How-To: Guide to Database Migration from MS Access using MySQL Workbench.

Include Model Scripts in Forward Engineering and Synchronization

Workbench modeling has always supported attaching SQL script files to the model, usually for documentation/organization purposes. You can now include these attachments to the output script when performing forward engineering or synchronization.

Resume data copy …

MySQL Fabric Support

MySQL Fabric servers can now be added to the Workbench home screen. When clicked, these connections will dynamically query the Fabric server and individual connections for all the managed MySQL servers will be created. You can then connect to each instance as usual. 

Metadata Lock Browser

MySQL uses metadata locking to manage access to objects (tables, triggers, and so forth). Sometimes that can be puzzling, as your query may block waiting on an object being manipulated by another connection from maybe another user. The Client Connections list was updated to take advantage of the metadata lock information provided in the performance_schema starting in MySQL 5.7.3, to show …

Improved Visual Explain

In MySQL 5.7, the Optimizer Team has been doing great work in refactoring as well as innovation with the new Cost Model. The improved Visual Explain enables the DBA to now get deeper insights into Optimizer decision making, for improved performance tuning of queries.   The UI was also improved to allow easier navigation in large query plans.

Streamlined Query Results Panel

The query results panel was updated to centralize the many features related to result sets into a single location. Result Grid, Form Editor, Field Types, Query Stats, Execution Plan (including the traditional and Visual Explain) and the new Spatial Viewer are all easily accessible from a single interface.

Run SQL …

The Spatial Viewer

MySQL 5.7 will include much awaited GIS support for InnoDB tables. To make it easier to quickly visualize spatial/geometry data in geographic context, Workbench 6.2 includes a viewer for resultsets containing that type of data. The viewer will render data from each row as a separate clickable element. When clicked, you can view the rest of the data from that row in the textbox. If you have multiple queries with geometry data, you can overlay them in the same map.

But that’s not all the features. The Spatial Data Viewer give you the possibility to display the data using different projection systems. Right now you can use Robinson, Mercator, Equirectangular, Bonne. There’s option to even merge different resultsets, execute all of them and switch to …