Archive for the ‘Tutorial’ Category

MySQL Workbench 5.2 Beta Quick-Start Tutorial

Wednesday, November 18th, 2009

MySQL Workbench 5.2 introduces a lot of new functionality and therefore this short tutorial will help you to get started quickly. The Home Screen The most prominent new addition in respect to previous Workbench releases is the new Home Screen. It allows you to access the main features of Workbench in a ...

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 5.2 Querying Quick-Tour

Wednesday, May 27th, 2009

For anybody interested in trying out our new MySQL Workbench 5.2 Alpha2 I have prepared a short Quick-Tour that will show you the most important steps to successfully use WB to query your databases. Manage Your Connections MySQL Workbench 5.2 introduces a new Home Page that makes it very easy to access ...

Free Workshop + Free Workbench SE at MySQL UC

Wednesday, April 8th, 2009

Everybody attending the MySQL Users Conference this year please mark your calenders! This is your chance to become a MySQL schema design expert as well as learn how to use Workbench from the experts. We are going to do a free Workshop called "Introduction to Data Modeling with MySQL Workbench" on ...

MySQL Workbench – LUA-Script For Batch Renaming Of Foreign Keys

Tuesday, January 27th, 2009

Yesterday there was a short discussion on our public IRC channel (#workbench on freenode). It was about how Workbench handles Foreign-Key-Names. Especially if you intend to use Synchronization feature (available in SE edition only) its good to have names for FKs (and their coresponding Indices). Workbench does that by default if ...

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 ...

Good MySQL Workbench Article

Wednesday, June 11th, 2008

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, ...

MySQL Workbench Community Edition: Guide to Schema Synchronization

Friday, June 6th, 2008

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 ...