The MySQL developer tools team announces the availability of version 5.2.46 of the MySQL Workbench GUI tool. This version contains 30 resolved bugs and support for the new MySQL 5.6 server.

Additionally, MySQL Utilities 1.2.0 have been included on the distribution.

For a full list of issues fixed in this release, see the release notes.

Please get your copy from our Downloads site. In Windows, you can also use the MySQL Windows Installer to update Workbench and other MySQL products.

Sources and binary packages are available for several platforms, including Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.

http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/workbench/

Workbench Documentation can be found …

I recently had a need to import a bunch of data into MySQL, and for reasons I won’t get into here, LOAD DATA INFILE wasn’t working for me.  I was in a hurry to get the data into MySQL so that I could filter it, and didn’t have time to work through my LOAD DATA INFILE issues.  Looking around for another way to quickly get my tab-delimited data into MySQL quickly, I decided to use the MySQL for Excel plugin.  If you haven’t seen this yet, and you have Excel, it might be worth your while.

In my case, I was able to quickly copy and paste the tab-delimited text file into an Excel spreadsheet, connect MySQL for Excel to the MySQL database and append the data to the existing table.  You’ll need to have Excel, MySQL and the MySQL for Excel plugin.  The latter two can be installed from a single download using the …

New in MySQL Workbench 5.2.44 is the latest release of MySQL Utilities 1.1.0. This release contains a new utility called the MySQL Utilities Users' Console (mysqluc).

The MySQL Utilities Users' Console is designed to make using the utilities easier. While it is not a new utility in the sense it doesn't provide any new functionlity for managing MySQL servers or data, it does provide a unique shell environment with command completion, help for each utility, user defined variables, and type completion for options.

That's right, you no longer have to type out the entire name of the utility. For example, you can type mysqldbe and press the TAB key and it will complete the command as mysqldbexport. Don't remember the name of a database utility you want to use? That's no problem either - just type mysqldb and press TAB twice. The console will list all of the utilities that start with mysqldb.

The same is true …

Momentum for MySQL Utilities continues to build.  I hosted a webinar recently about MySQL Utilities (available on-demand from the link below), which generated a lot of interest and some good questions.

http://event.on24.com/eventRegistration/EventLobbyServlet?target=lobby.jsp&eventid=448952&sessionid=1&key=7E741ED049DFBF49D10C90A2B62E410F&eventuserid=63530507

With so many questions and ideas coming in I decided to create a blog of FAQs. I plan to add these to the MySQL documentation as well.  Keep your ideas and questions coming!

I hope you find these questions enlightening. I have grouped them for easier reading. You can find the MySQL Utilities documentation using the link below. 

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The mysqldiff and mysqldbcompare utilities were designed to produce a difference report for objects and in the case of mysqldbcompare the data. Thus, you can compare two databases and produce a report of the differences in both object definitions and data rows. 

While that may be very useful, would it not be much more useful to have the ability to produce SQL commands to transform databases? Wait no longer! The latest release of MySQL Utilities has added the ability to generate SQL transformation statements by both the mysqldiff and mysqldbcompare utilities. 

To generate SQL transformations in either utility, simply use the --sql option to tell the utility to produce the statements.

Object Transformations with mysqldiff

If you would like to compare the schema of two databases (the objects and their definitions), mysqldiff can do that for you and produce a difference report …

The new MySQL 5.6 Development Milestone Release (DMR) includes many new enhancements. One of the most impressive is the use of Global Transaction Identifiers (GTIDs) for replication. With GTIDs enabled, administrators no longer need to keep track of binary log files and positions. In a nutshell, GTIDs simplify the setup and maintenance of replication.

MySQL Utilities has taken this a step further by providing two new utilities that automate two of the most complex replication administration tasks - switchover and failover. Switchover is changing the role of an active, healthy master to one of its slaves whereas failover is the act of promoting a candidate slave to become the new master. Clearly, switchover is an elective operation and failover is performed when there are issues with the master.

The GTID utilities are included in release-1.0.5 of MySQL Utilities. They are included as a plugin for MySQL Workbench or via …

The MySQL Developer Tools team is announcing the next maintenance release of its flagship product, MySQL Workbench, version 5.2.39. This version contains MySQL Utilities 1.0.5, a set of command line Python utilities for helping to perform and script various administration tasks for MySQL. A complete list of changes in this release of the Utilities can be found at:
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/workbench/en/wb-utils-news-1-0-5.html

MySQL Workbench 5.2 GA

• Data Modeling

• Query (replaces the old MySQL Query Browser)

• Administration (replaces the old MySQL Administrator)

Please get your copy from our Download site.

Sources and binary packages are available for several platforms, including Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.

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I see so many posts on what happened to company X, product Y and dream Z that I couldn't resist the temptation to summarize this great year for MySQL. At the end of 2010, Oracle did an announcement we were all waiting for: MySQL 5.5 is GA! Another year has passed since then and it's time to reflect on what has been done.

I know this is a long post. I tried to rewrite it at least 10 times to make it shorter, but I couldn't condense the list. Hence, I wrote a summary in the beginning for those who don't want to read it all.

I believe that 2011 was an exceptional year for MySQL and I really enjoy being part of this team. I wish all of us a lot of success and fun in the years to come!

Summary:
Oracle released many  …

The MySQL Developer Tools team is announcing the next maintenance release of it’s flagship product, MySQL Workbench, version 5.2.37. 

This release contains 21 bug fixes, including a fix for a slowdown on loading of schema objects in the SQL Editor. 

MySQL Workbench 5.2 GA

• Data Modeling

• Query (replaces the old MySQL Query Browser)

• Administration (replaces the old MySQL Administrator)

Please get your copy from our Download site. Sources and binary packages are available for several platforms, including Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.

http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/workbench/

Workbench Documentation can be found here.

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The MySQL Developer Tools team is announcing the next maintenance release of it’s flagship product, MySQL Workbench, version 5.2.37. 

This release contains 21 bug fixes, including a fix for a slowdown on loading of schema objects in the SQL Editor. 

MySQL Workbench 5.2 GA

• Data Modeling

• Query (replaces the old MySQL Query Browser)

• Administration (replaces the old MySQL Administrator)

Please get your copy from our Download site. Sources and binary packages are available for several platforms, including Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.

http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/workbench/

Workbench Documentation can be found here.

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