MySQL Workbench 5.0.23 available

While working hard on the MySQL Workbench 5.1 source branch (Linux / OS X versions) we have not forgotten about the 5.0 branch and have fixed another series of bugs - now announcing the release of MySQL Workbench 5.0.23. Workbench now stores and recovers common Application settings - this is one of 26 bugs we corrected for this release. Fetch the latest version and let Workbench deal with your databases.

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Printing in Workbench

A common misunderstanding seems to be that the only way to increase the available "paper space" for a diagram is by increasing the size of the paper. But there is another way to do that, which is in the Model -> Diagram Size dialog, where you can set the number of pages your diagram has, vertically and horizontally (perhaps it's not very obvious to first time users, so we'll be working on making it more easily accessible). Another recurring issue is that of printing in the community version. Direct printing is currently only available in Workbench SE, but that doesn't mean you cannot print using the OSS version. You can still export the model to a variety of formats, like PDF, ...

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MySQL Workbench Has Reached a Major Milestone: 400.000 downloads

I would like to say a big Thank-You to the community. It has been quite a ride this last year for my team and me, designing and coding MySQL Workbench, getting it to GA quality, presenting at the UC and constantly continue to improve quality since then. Now let's look at the facts. I am happy to announce that we have reached more than 400.000 downloads of MySQL Workbench today, which is quite a lot for a highly specific tool in such a short time-frame (406690 at 18:25 GMT+1 to be exact). We have about as many downloads a day as the MySQL Server 5.1 server on Windows, also quite impressive I think for a little database design tool (I am only ...

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Good MySQL Workbench Article

Please find a nice article by Djoni Darmawikarta here. He gives a nice step-by-step tutorial on how to use MySQL Workbench to create a simple model and then use the Forward Engineering functionality to create the actual database schema. If you have written such a tutorial yourself or plan to write one, please drop us a email at workbench@mysql.com and we will be happy to feature you on our official Workbench Blog!

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MySQL Workbench Community Edition: Guide to Schema Synchronization

As you can see in the MySQL Workbench Edition feature grid, Live Schema Synchronization is a Standard Edition feature only. But that does not mean that you cannot make use of the same functionality in the OSS Edition in an offline scenario - which is even more preferable in some cases. Create an SQL CREATE script from your model You might already have the SQL CREATE script if you started your model with an import of an existing schema. If you started designing your model from scratch inside Workbench, you are going to export an SQL CREATE script anyway - in order to create the initial schema on the database server. Update your Workbench model At this point your database is already running. But ...

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Perspective: Addons and Community site

Along with evolving and documenting interface for writing Workbench plugins we think about community site which will make sharing and usage of plugins within community extremely easy. Conceptually it will be close to addons.mozilla.org. Users will be able to explore directory of published addons, read description and comments on them, quickly install and rate whatever they consider necessary. To install selected addon user will have just to drag'n'drop corresponding link to Workbench, and the rest will be done by Workbench. Every addon will be supplied with manifest file describing its version, dependencies on other addons (if any), files to be installed, menu items to be added, etc. Addon has wide definition, it could be a plugin (dynamic library), set of ...

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First MySQL Workbench Plugin Written By Community

I am happy to announce that the first Workbench plugin written by the community was published recently.Daniel Haas has written a code generation plugin for Propel, a database abstraction layer for PHP. You can download the plugin from Daniel's blog that can be found here it is published under the GPL. He also provides the necessary steps to install the script. This is amazing in several ways. First, we have not yet published a comprehensive tutorial how to write plugins and scripts for Workbench because we have been fully loaded with other stuff. Vlad did a tutorial on this at the MySQL Users Conference but the Wiki pages have not been written yet. So Daniel took the hard way, figuring out a lot of things ...

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New MySQL Workbench Auto-Update Feature for SE in 5.0.22

We introduced a new library to use with our update-feature inside Workbench. With the new lib (yassl) it's possible to use SSL encryption for the authentication/download of new SE releases. This was not possible with libcurl because we're not allowed to use/bundle openSSL. As this update is included staring with 5.0.22 all SE users will have to download version 5.0.22 manually from the enterprise pages one more time. Please logon to https://enterprise.mysql.com/software/gui_tools.php with your mysql username and password, download the latest release and launch the installer manually. Sorry for the inconvenience.

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MySQL Workbench 5.0.22 released

After some glitches - mainly introduced by switching to the new source control system - we are presenting a new release of version 5.0 (built right out of our shiny new bazaar repository). This release has another 17 bugs fixed (along with some additional adjustments to improve usability). While we are already working in parallel at version 5.1 we are constantly fixing the remaining bugs in our present release version.

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MySQL Workbench 5.0.22 Coming Up - Switch to Bazaar

The next bug-fix release of MySQL Workbench is coming up this week. Tax is still working on the build, we had some unit tests failing that are now passing again. Apart from the usual bug fixes this will be the first release created out of our new Bazaar repositories, http://bazaar-vcs.org/ The team has been relying on the SubVersion source version control system which worked great for us during the last years. But as we did the branching for MySQL Workbench 5.1 we decided that it is time to move to a more advanced system. We have been looking at Mercurial http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/ but decided to go with Bazaar instead which performed excellent in our tests. We hope to finish the WB 5.0.22 release ...

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