Archive for the ‘Linux’ Category
Monday, February 18th, 2013
In a recent post we showed you how to migrate a SQL Server database to MySQL. There, we used the oficial Microsoft ODBC driver and that's OK if you are running MySQL Workbench in Windows. But what if your desktop OS is some Linux variant or Mac OS X?
It turns out ...
Posted in Linux, Mac, Migration, Tutorial | No Comments »
Wednesday, November 14th, 2012
Last month Ubuntu 12.10 was released and we tried to install MySQL Workbench on it. So we went to http://www.mysql.com/downloads/workbench/ and downloaded the .deb file for the most recent Workbench version (5.2.44 as of this writing). We then opened the .deb file with the Ubuntu Software Center application and tried to ...
Posted in Linux | 5 Comments »
Friday, August 10th, 2012
Recently I've had to spend countless hours trying to debug a problem mixing various ODBC components. Since I couldn't find any answers online, at least not in a way that was easy for a ODBC beginner like me to understand, I've decided to write it down here so it can ...
Posted in Coding, Linux, Mac | 1 Comment »
Saturday, December 3rd, 2011
MySQL Workbench 5.2.36 has been released. This release is part of an ongoing effort committed to improving the day to day usability of the product based on accumulated experience from tools such as MySQL Query Browser and input from user feedback.
This specific version was focused on improving usability of the ...
Posted in Announcements, Linux, Mac, Windows | 10 Comments »
Monday, October 17th, 2011
To build MySQL Workbench one would need to install dependencies, fetch source code, configure it and actually do a build.
Note: On a Core2 Quad 2.4 GHz and a 4G of RAM it takes about 30-40 minutes to build Workbench. Also it uses about 4.2G of hdd space to build.
Here are ...
Posted in Linux, Tutorial | 20 Comments »
Friday, September 23rd, 2011
The MySQL Developer Tools team is proud to announce the next release of it's flagship product, MySQL Workbench, version 5.2.35. This is the next maintenance release containing 29 bug fixes as well as new feature additions. We also updated the supported platforms to include most recent editions of Fedora and ...
Posted in Announcements, Linux, Mac, Windows | 29 Comments »
Tuesday, July 19th, 2011
It happens that sometimes you need to access a remote box which supports ssh key authentication. Recently I was trying to reproduce a bug related to SSH public key authentication, so here I would like to share some of my experience.
There will be no explanation of the public key authentication ...
Posted in Administration, Linux, Windows | 3 Comments »
Thursday, May 26th, 2011
The MySQL Developer Tools team is pleased to announce the next release of it's flagship product, MySQL Workbench, version 5.2.34. This is a maintenance release containing 100 bug fixes; ranging from stability improvements on all supported platforms - including some that prevented startup in certain environments - to minor but ...
Posted in Announcements, Linux, Mac, Windows | 20 Comments »
Friday, March 11th, 2011
The MySQL developer tools team announces the next release of it's flagship product, MySQL Workbench - version 5.2.33. This is a maintenance release only which corrects some problems we didn't cover in last release. It contains fixes for 7 bugs or enhancement requests.
As always, we want to thank everyone for ...
Posted in Announcements, Linux, Mac, Windows | 32 Comments »
Saturday, March 5th, 2011
We're proud to announce the next release of MySQL Workbench, version 5.2.32. This is a maintenance release featuring
a new and improved UI appearance and several corrections and other enhancements.
The tabbed interface has been refreshed to obtain a clearer separation between different modules of Workbench, while improving responsiveness when switching between ...
Posted in Announcements, Linux, Mac, Windows | 12 Comments »
