We’re excited to announce that Webyog has been acquired by Idera, Inc. Idera, Inc. is a leading provider of B2B software productivity tools that enable technical users to do more. This acquisition will allow Webyog to expand the reach of our MySQL tools to new geographies while better serving our customers.

Webyog began in 2001 with the mission to develop a quality MySQL GUI tool (SQLyog) for our users and quickly became a key contributor to the MySQL ecosystem. Our core principle of enabling users to easily manage their MySQL databases has resonated with MySQL users and enabled us to build best of breed database management tools for the community as a whole. Today, Webyog provides MySQL database management and monitoring tools to over 2.5 million users in 150+ countries.

Our joining forces with IDERA will further enhance our product offerings and provide customers with exciting …

Oh yes, 2012 was an incredible year for the MySQL Community!
That’s why I would like to change the rules this year and I would like to offer you a new survey for this [Plus] reader’s choice 2012.

Community users, bloggers and events made the whole community last year, tell us how you used this community?
It will only take 5 minutes of your precious time, votes will be closed Jan. 31.

Vote for what you used! (with your heart, again…)

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At the MySQL Conference, I had the chance to interview Rohit Nadhani, founder of Webyog, the folk that make SQLyog and MONyog. Watch the video, for more.

Generally based out of Bangalore (I visited them when I was last there), Webyog just started an office in Santa Clara, and are expanding. They boast 15,000 paid customers so far, with some big name customers: Google, Yahoo!, executive office to the US president, and more.

SQLyog is termed as an upgrade from phpMyAdmin. There is a GPL community edition, with some “power tools” that is part of the Enterprise Edition. It is very Win32 based, but easy enough to run on other OSes via WINE or some sort of virtualisation tool.

MONyog is an agentless monitoring tool. It …

I was contacted by the folks at MONyog and asked if I would review MONyog. Since using MONyog is something I have been wanting to do for a while, I jumped at the chance. Of course, “jumped” is relative; Rohit asked me at the MySQL User Conference back in April, and here it is two months later, in June. My apologies to folks for being slow.

This review is an overall review of MONyog as well as specifically reviewing the newest features released in the recent beta (Version 2.5 Beta 2). Feature requests are easily delineated with (feature request). This review is quite long, feel free to bookmark it and read it at your leisure. If you have comments please add them, even if it takes a while for you to read this entire article.

While the webyog website gives some information about what MONyog can do, it is a bit vague about what MONyog is, although there …

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