MySQL Workbench 5.2.3 Alpha Available

We're happy to announce the availability of the next Alpha release of MySQL Workbench 5.2. There have been further improvements to the querying part and we added the foundations for the administration part (which will be onboard in the next alpha). On startup, MySQL Workbench 5.2 now doesn't automatically create a new design-document anymore - thats for decreasing resource-usage when you only launch Workbench for running a few queries against your database. Also the fix to make Workbench work on Snow Leopard has been included in 5.2 now as well. Please download the program, take it for a test-drive and tell us what you think. But keep in mind, that this is still an alpha version - so be advised to not use it for production data! Also please note, ...

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MySQL Workbench 5.1.18 Available

We are proud to announce the next service release of MySQL Workbench 5.1.18. We have fixed another set of bugs and made some improvements you people have been asking for. We have optimized the layout of the Columns-section in our table-editor considering the ideas and exeriences you posted in feature requests, bug-reports and on the forums. Now it should provide a smoother more comfortable workflow. As already reported in previous blog-posts, this version is also compatible with Apples recently released version of OSX - 10.6 Snow Leopard. Detailed information on the fixes can be found on our Releases Page. The new files are available on our download page: http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/workbench/5.1.html If you encounter problems or have any questions, you can always contact us via IRC (Channel ...

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MySQL Workbench now works on Snow Leopard

So, it turned out fixing the Workbench crash on Snow Leopard wasn't very hard. Took a little time to find out what was causing the crash but, once that was found, the fix was quick. The next releases of both branches — MySQL Workbench 5.1.18 this week and 5.2.3 alpha later on — will have proper support for Mac OS X 10.6 For whoever might be interested, the bug was caused by what seems to be a slight change in how object/NSView copies are handed in Cocoa. NSCollectionView items are populated by copying a "prototype" object. It seems that somehow, duplication of that object included the fields of child objects as well in Leopard, but not in Snow Leopard. The object copies ...

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MySQL Workbench on Snow Leopard

As all you Mac users (and probably many non-Macies) know Apple released Snow Leopard (Mac OS X 10.6) recently, even though this release was announced for September previously. Since a large part of the MySQL Workbench user base works on OS X it was clear that many of you will test Workbench on the new OS. However, so far we haven't had the opportunity to do the same (too busy fixing bugs on released OSes) and hence we did not know about incompatibility problems there. In the meantime several users did tests and reported us a crash on startup of the application, which means you cannot use MySQL Workbench on Snow Leopard for the time being. We are currently preparing build, ...

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What is the Operating System for your personal development machine/laptop that you do or would like to run MySQL Workbench on? NOTE: This is not about your production server OS, only your personal development OS [poll id="2"]

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MySQL Workbench 5.1.17 Available

We're proud to announce the first service release of our current GA product MySQL Workbench 5.1. This maintenance release encompasses a number of stability, performance and quality improvements. We were able to fix 56 bugs - as always, details on latest changes can be found on our Releases Page. Please head over to our download page and fetch this new update: http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/workbench/5.1.html In addition to the improvements on the application, we also updated our packaging procedure to provide a more up to date selection of packages for recent distributions. Along with the Windows and OSX (intel) binaries we now provide binaries for the following Linux distributions: Ubuntu 8.04  (32/64bit) Ubuntu 9.04  (32/64bit) Fedora 11     (32/64bit) If you encounter any problems, please report them to our bugtracker. Feel ...

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MySQL Workbench 5.2. Query Functionality Update

Few words about current status of 5.2 branch, its main feature Query Editor, and plans for nearest future about it. 5.2 is still in alpha stage, but we did good progress lately and plan to release beta version soon. For v5.2.2 major efforts were concentrated on stabilization of existing functionality and code base. There are few improvements in Query Editor visible to end user, while a good bunch of bugs were revealed and fixed - thanks to community for bug reporting. Even more fixes/improvements were merged from 5.1 branch. While we continue to work on stabilization, we plan to add following features before transition to beta stage: Client side sorting Advanced editor for text fields of recordset Saving/retrieving BLOB values Option to propagate changes ...

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MySQL Workbench 5.2.2 ALPHA Out

The MySQL Workbench team announces the availability of version 5.2.2 - the 3rd ALPHA release - of our database development tool. Since the last alpha release, several bugs has been fixed and fixes from the 5.1 branch were also included. No major new features are included in this version, but upgrade from previous versions of Workbench 5.2 is recommended. However, please note that this is still an ALPHA release of Workbench 5.2 For database modeling use, please consider using the latest version of Workbench 5.1 For a QuickTour of the latest Query Browser features, see:  http://dev.mysql.com/workbench/?page_id=236 The files for different platforms have been pushed to our main server and will be globally available on our mirrors during the next hours. Please get your copy form our Download page: http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/workbench/5.2.html General infos, including build instructions for Linux, on our Developer Central site at ...

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Auto-create relationships for MyISAM tables in MySQL Workbench

Over a chat on the #workbench IRC channel, Collin Cusce has written a handy little Lua script to automatically create relationships (through foreign keys) for his reverse engineered database. Reverse engineering the DB to import tables into a diagram was easy, but their database used no "hard" foreign keys and an ER diagram without relationships wouldn't be of much use. So one option would be to individually connect each foreign key column pair by hand, using the relationship picking tool . But doing that for the thirty-something tables in the database would be too much work and something could be overlooked and left out. The other option would be to automate that, since all such foreign keys followed a naming convention like ...

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Time To Upgrade - MySQL Workbench 5.1 Is Here on Win, Mac & Linux

We just announced the latest MySQL Workbench 5.1 release, 5.1.16. This release was labeled GA, which means that everybody using WB 5.0 or an earlier version of WB 5.1 is recommended update to WB 5.1.16. We are now putting our main focus on the WB 5.1 branch and will continue to provide rapid update releases during the next months. Please report any hidden issues you may still find on our bug-tracker bugs.mysql.com so we can take care of those quickly. After the dust settles we will also continue to work on WB 5.2 in parallel, to give you query & administrative functionality within a single, powerful but easy to use tool. Happy schema designing with MySQL Workbench 5.1!

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