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MySQL Workbench Administrator Plugin

Wednesday, October 7th, 2009

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 ...

MySQL Workbench now works on Snow Leopard

Tuesday, September 1st, 2009

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 ...

Python Scripting in Workbench

Sunday, March 8th, 2009

Python support has been added to the latest version of MySQL Workbench. In addition to Lua, you can now write scripts and modules or interact with the GRT shell using the Python language. The integration allows you to use GRT objects and modules mostly in the same way you would ...

MySQL Workbench 5.1.4 Alpha Available

Saturday, November 8th, 2008

We've packaged another alpha-version of our current work-in-progress version of workbench - version 5.1.4. We've added more features, fixed problems and started to build packages for Fedora Core 9 along with our binaries for Ubuntu 8.04. MySQL Workbench OSS 5.1.4 Alpha - Linux Source Tar Ball ftp://ftp.mysql.com/pub/mysql/download/gui-tools/mysql-workbench-5.1.4alpha.tar.gz ftp://ftp.mysql.com/pub/mysql/download/gui-tools/mysql-workbench-5.1.4alpha.tar.gz.md5 Binaries for Fedora Core 9 ftp://ftp.mysql.com/pub/mysql/download/gui-tools/mysql-workbench-5.1.4-1fc9.i386.rpm ftp://ftp.mysql.com/pub/mysql/download/gui-tools/mysql-workbench-5.1.4-1fc9.i386.rpm.md5 Source Packages for ...

OpenGL and Workbench Canvas News

Friday, November 7th, 2008

Recently, a bug that caused excessive memory usage and slowness (specially in large models) in Workbench has been fixed in its canvas. From the testing I've done, the speed for displaying diagrams seems to scale much better and dragging around tables in large models is doable in an acceptable speed. ...

MySQL Workbench 5.0.25 coming next week

Friday, September 5th, 2008

As you may have noticed we're going for a major milestone on our Workbench 5.1 roadmap. So our resources are pretty much concentrated on this  task at the moment. But it's just as important to keep improving our 5.0 GA version, so we will reserve the first days next week ...

MySQL Workbench 5.1 OS X Screen Designs

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

Before I am leaving for my summer vacation I wanted to share the first screen designs for the Mac version of Workbench. Click on the small images below to view the screenshots at full size. The first shot shows the new Overview Page. It holds the Workbench Central panel (that can ...

Preparing For Next Release – MySQL Workbench 5.0.24 Coming Soon

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

Due to summer vacations - yes, even we take some time off - our release-cycle has slowed down quite a bit so it has already been more than 4 weeks since we aired an update of Workbench. Right in the middle of testing and preparing the next build, our build-server ...

Nice Blog Postings About MySQL Workbench

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008

Quite a few Blog postings pop up recently, let me outline two of them. Gerry Narvaja talks about multi-page printing by using the MySQL Workbench community edition utilizing the PDF output. Find his posting here. Weizh posted a nice step-by-step tutorial on how to use Workbench to show differences between two databases. ...

Printing in Workbench

Friday, June 13th, 2008

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 ...