Last night, I attended Mike Zinner’s presentation of MySQL GUI’s, most specifically MySQL Workbench. In summary I was very impressed with the current work, and the future potential. I’ve been waiting for now about a year to get access to full strength MySQL Workbench (it has been available for some time, but still in early development), having previously used DB Designer for MySQL Data Modelling. One of the limitations is finding a quality tool that runs under Linux. Well MySQL workbench will satisfy this and far more in the future.
A quick summary of some of the glossy features.
- Reverse Engineering of schemas from multiple input sources including MySQL, Oracle, MS SQL Server.
- Synchronisation with a MySQL Database.
- Quick Re-Synchronisation.
- Full GUI tools and features for creating and maintaining database …