Archive for the ‘Plugins’ Category

MySQL Workbench: PHP development helper plugins

Friday, September 23rd, 2011

In the new MySQL Workbench 5.2.35, a plugin that will be of interest to PHP developers, both experienced and newbies, has been added. The plugin contains a couple of functions that allows you to create PHP code straight out of your current work in the Workbench SQL Editor, ready to be ...

MySQL Workbench: Introducing Utilities

Thursday, December 9th, 2010

MySQL has the well earned reputation for ease-of-use and "15-minutes-to-success", since we continually focus making the server easy to use. MySQL Workbench provides the visual tools for database design, development, and administration. However, many DBAs prefer using the command-line, and there are many tasks that require the creation ...

MySQL Workbench: Utilities

Thursday, December 9th, 2010

MySQL Workbench is an extensible tool for database design, development, and administration – with support for python scripting and plugins, that can automate basic tasks. Starting with MySQL Workbench 5.2.31, and with MySQL designers, developers, and administrators in mind, we’ve added a new plugin called MySQL Utilities. The MySQL Utilities is ...

MySQL Workbench Plugin: Auto-Create Foreign Keys

Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010

To automatically create Foreign Key relationships is a typical use case for developers working with the MyISAM storage engine. This has been a popular topic on the Blog and forums so we’re revisiting it here - with a new and improved plugin written in Python. While the InnoDB storage engine supports ...

MySQL Workbench Plugin: Execute Query to Text Output

Thursday, August 12th, 2010

In MySQL Workbench 5.2.26 a new query execution command is available, where query output is sent as text to the text Output tab of the SQL Editor. Some MySQL Workbench users liked the “Results to Text” option available in Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio. Cool thing is with a few lines ...

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 speaks SQLite

Wednesday, May 13th, 2009

As many of you already know, MySQL Workbench offers powerful scripting support and a plugin interface that allows anybody to extend the application or add new functionality. The latest addition to the WB plugin family has been written by Thomas Henlich. It features SQLite compatible SQL export of your Workbench models. Download ...

Python Scripting in Workbench

Sunday, March 8th, 2009

Updated: 2010-8-11 updated sample code to reflect changes in plugin registration API 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 ...

Automate Figure Arrangement In Workbench

Thursday, October 30th, 2008

Initiated by a question on the forum I took some time to exercise my Workbench-Scripting-Knowledge. The question was, if it's possible to do some figure-arrangement/organizing via scripts. To be more precise, the task I had to master was to get tables that have names starting with a given prefix moved ...

Pimp My Workbench

Friday, September 5th, 2008

Some weeks ago there was a request about adding a feature that keeps (or gets) datatypes of colums, which are connected via foreign keys, in sync. While we have added this to our ToDo list, I thought of doing some simple LUA exercises to give the user at least a ...