The sources are available all time - though not per ZIP download between the releases - but via Subversion repository:

* Browse through files: http://code.google.com/p/heidisql/source/browse/#svn/trunk
* Check out with a client like TortoiseSVN: http://code.google.com/p/heidisql/source/checkout

The database layer is located here:
* http://code.google.com/p/heidisql/source/browse/trunk/source/mysql_connection.pas
* …

HeidiSQL now uses a more lightweight database layer to access MySQL servers. This completely new written layer consists of just two units and replaces the big ZeosDBO package - which worked well over the years, but I felt that here and there developping new features regarding the libmysql API was a pain.

Unfortunately there is nothing to show you here, no screenshot available, but in fact that was one of the most critical change over the last year.

* The UPX compressed executable's size has decreased from 1,1M to 900K.
* Should also result in better performance in some cases.

Didn't take too much notice of our download numbers recently, so I saw a nice number today: ~130,000 downloads of the 4.0 release.

Together with
* 230,000 downloads of HeidiSQL 3.2
* 90,000 downloads of source packages, portable and various older releases
* 50,000 downloads from pre-Google-Code times for which I don't have statistics

... we have 500,000 downloads total!

More statistics:
* Average size of one downloaded file is ~2MB
* HeidiSQL development started ~3 years ago in late 2006 (ignoring old MF2.5 times)
* Makes ~900 MB / ~450 files of downloads each day

A big thank to all and each user out there!

Recently we have released Workbench 5.2.4 Alpha. This version has some new features, and amongst them there is Workbench Administrator plugin or WBA plugin for short.

The plugin aims to ease the managing process of server instances. What we offer with WBA is a simple way to check status, configure and control one server instance. Some parts will resemble discontinued MySQL Administrator.

And here is a short summary of what we will have in WBA:

• Start/Stop server
• Edit server configuration (my.cnf)
• Manage user accounts
• Monitor user connections
• Status/Server variables browsing
• Log browsing
• Dump/Restore

In this alpha we have implemented a subset, which targets local usage only. Remote management and administration is upcoming. The subset includes:

• Add new Server Profiles
• Start/Stop the Server
…

Recently I decided to build my own forum software so I'm able to better control spam posts and make posting easier than it ever was.

All user accounts including passwords were imported into my new database. Only the name of the permanent cookie has changed so you might have to login once before posting now.

Email addresses are nowhere displayed, except for the settings page where you only see the more compact options, including a checkbox to turn email notification on replies on and off.

I'm going to add some formatting buttons to the posting form, and maybe some pulldown for smilies. Currently you can only post plain text messages, which is sufficient in many cases.

I'm also going to add support for creating Subversion revision URLs, automatically created if you type

r1234

. Same goes for issue ids when you want to refer to a bug report.

I hope you like …

Ever wanted to find a text string in a whole database? Using a nightly build, now you are able to do that, even your whole server can be selected. Just press Ctrl+Shift+F to call the "table tools" dialog.

The maintenance dialog was refactored recently to allow different tabs and actions. Probably you have ideas for further tabs here - please post them in our feature tracker!

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 were incomplete and when they were accessed, it ended up attempting to create a C++ string out of nil.

Things are growing yet again at work and with it the number of people needed to keep things flowing smoothly. This time it’s the Sales Engineer team that needs a new person, working in the Baltimore/Washington area (our home office):

Responsibilities

• Provide exemplary pre-sales technical expertise through technical and product presentations, product demonstrations, pilot implementations, beta program administration, consistent communication, and on-going technical consultation.
• Translate complex technical problems for non-technical clients as well as translating non-technical specifications into precise technical requirements.
• Meet with clients to evaluate their current systems and needs and make recommendations for software and hardware and integration.
• Travel approximately 30% in support of sales and customer activities.
• Respond to RFIs, RFPs and serve as …

Most wished by HeidiSQL users: having more than one query tab. Just implemented that, trying to adapt most nice tabbed interface details:
* Create new tab with Ctrl+T or by doubleclicking the empty tab space
* Close tab either by clicking a close button or with Ctrl+F4




Not the newest one, but also not in the recent 4.0 final yet: A completely rewritten editor for table structures. Replaces various legacy dialogs in one powerful GUI, with even more functions than before:
* In-memory editing until you press "Save"
* Grid like editing of all column properties
* Advanced table options gathered on a seperate tabsheet
* CREATE and ALTER code for preview and copy+paste purposes



Give it a try and download a …

Recently I tried out Google Analytics on heidisql.com for 2 weeks - nice statistics, really. But for sporadic statistics I thought that it's not worth giving each and every visitor a cookie and some dubious JavaScript, spying out several personal information. So I removed the Analytics webbug again now.

Additionally we had a Ohloh badge somewhere at the bottom of the page. I decided to also remove that, although that didn't send a cookie, but slowed down page loading significantly, and it seemed not to be of much interest.

So I am proud to have heidisql.com free of web bugs again. Of course, that doesn't apply to the ads at the very top of the page besides the HeidiSQL logo.

Btw, if you're worried about your privacy online, the Ghostery Firefox plugin is definitely for you.