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Set up and configure PostgreSQL ODBC drivers for the MySQL Workbench Migration Wizard

Wednesday, November 14th, 2012

If you plan to use the MySQL Workbench Migration Wizard to migrate databases from PostgreSQL to MySQL you first need to configure an ODBC driver to connect to your PostgreSQL server. In this post I'll cover how to set up and configure psqlODBC, the official ODBC driver for PostgreSQL. Installing the psqlODBC ...

MySQL Workbench on Ubuntu 11.10

Monday, October 17th, 2011

We have seen many reports about broken build and freezes which are experienced on Ubuntu 11.10. While the build fix was pretty simple, the freezes took us a bit more time to hunt them down. The point is that MySQL Workbench relies on glib's idle signals which are emitted when Gtk's ...

Quick help for an upgrade problem

Thursday, May 26th, 2011

With the just released version 5.2.34 we also changed the python version used in MySQL Workbench (to 2.7). However, this produces a problem when upgrading from 5.2.33. The reason is that the installer leaves all the compiled python files (*.pyc) in the installation folder. On next load of Workbench you ...

MySQL Workbench Wins Top 10 Placing

Thursday, May 20th, 2010

Jack Wallen from TechRepublic put together a Top-10 list of his favorite cross-platform applications. It is humbling to find MySQL Workbench in the company of such popular products like FireFox, Chrome, and Open Office. Find his full list of applications here. We can learn a lot from the other app in that ...

MySQL Workbench – Presentation Slides

Tuesday, April 13th, 2010

Everybody at the MySQL Conference & Expo 2010 who is interested in MySQL Workbench, please feel free to join me for an in-depth presentation about the current MySQL Workbench 5.2 product and future plans. Looking forward to see you there! Follow this link to the Conference Schedule for time and coordinates. For ...

Using MySQL Workbench with XAMPP

Friday, January 15th, 2010

David Coveney from interconnectit.com has written an excellent tutorial of how to use MySQL Workbench with XAMPP, a very nice bundle of Apache, MySQL, PHP and Perl. If you are running XAMPP or what to give it a try, make sure to check out his tutorial that describes how to ...

EOL of MySQL Query Browser, MySQL Administrator, MySQL Migration Toolkit

Friday, December 18th, 2009

With the beta releases of MySQL Workbench 5.2 well under way, we recently announced the EOL (http://www.mysql.com/support/eol-notice.html) of the MySQL GUI Tools Bundle. The MySQL Tools team has been working on MySQL Workbench 5.2 to give DBAs and developers an integrated tools environment for: Database Design & Modeling SQL Development (replacing MySQL Query ...

Vote For New Packages

Monday, August 17th, 2009

What is the Operating System for your personal development machine/laptop that you do or would like to run MySQL Workbench on? NOTE: This is not about your production server OS, only your personal development OS [poll id="2"]

MySQL Workbench Webseminar

Tuesday, May 26th, 2009

To all people, interested to see a presentation/live demo of MySQL Workbench 5.1 and 5.2 - you're welcome to join the MySQL Workbench Web-Seminar, held tomorrow, May 27th at 15:00 CET. Important side-note: it's held in German! For about 45 minutes I will walk you through various parts of the application ...

MySQL Workbench replacing MySQL Query Browser

Monday, May 25th, 2009

Our lastest Alpha2 release of MySQL Workbench 5.2 made it pretty clear that one of our main goals for WB 5.2 is to replace the old MySQL Query Browser (QB) tool. Even this Alpha2 release already covers most of the essential QB functionality, while at the same time removes some of ...