HowTo: Integrating MySQL for Visual Studio with Connector/Net
One of the most frequent questions in our forums is about how to get the graphical integration when using Visual Studio with MySQL databases. When developing applications with MySQL databases there are two basics products: a .net driver for MySQL, which is MySQL Connector/Net, and a tool...

New! MySQL Utilities Now Supports SSL and Configuration Files
The MySQL Utilities Team is pleased to announce a new release that contains our newest features – SSL and configuration file support. These were added to release-1.5.0-alpha. How can I make a secure connection to my server via Utilities? Use the new SSL command-line options that are available...

MySQL for Visual Studio 1.2.1 beta has been released
Dear MySQL users, MySQL for Visual Studio is a product including all of the Visual Studio integration previously available as part of Connector/Net. The 1.2.1 version is a beta release of this product which is feature complete but still can contain minor bugs and is not suitable for...

MySQL for Excel 1.3.1 RC has been released
The MySQL Windows Experience Team is proud to announce the release of MySQL for Excel version 1.3.1. This is a RC release for 1.3.x. MySQL for Excel is an application plug-in enabling data analysts to very easily access and manipulate MySQL data within Microsoft Excel. It enables you to directly...

Externally Stored Fields in InnoDB
This article discusses the storage (inline and external) of field data in the InnoDB storage engine. All fields of variable length types like VARCHAR, VARBINARY, BLOB and TEXT can be stored inline within the clustered index record, or stored externally in separate BLOB pages outside of the index...

MySQL Workbench 6.1.7 GA has been released
The MySQL Workbench team announces availability of version 6.1.7 of its flagship product. MySQL Workbench 6.1.7 is a periodic maintenance release including 17 bug fixes. Additionally, the supported Linux distribution list has been refreshed. Users of the product are recommended to upgrade to...

Streaming backups onto the Cloud Storage
MySQL Enterprise Backup(MEB) has been widely used as the most efficient tool to take backups of huge databases. The storage of backups can be done on-premises – viz, local hard disk, external hard disk drives, network mounted disk. MEB can also stream backups to tape by supporting different...

Optimistic updates for Edit Data operations in MySQL for Excel
In this blog post regarding MySQL for Excel features included since version 1.2.0, we are going to talk about a new option that is used along with Edit MySQL Data operations; very useful when editing data in a multi-user environment. If you are not familiar with editing MySQL data...

Report on MySQL User Camp, Bangalore on 20th June, 2014
MySQL User Camp Bangalore organized on 20th June, 2014 started as per plan. It was a good gathering. We got many users from different companies like Flipkart, CTS, CGI, Yahoo, Onze Technologies, Webyog and few other startups. Apart from this we also got 2 Mysql customers this time from UID Aadhar...

Improving Innochecksum
In WL#6045 we improved the innochecksum tool so that it opens the tablespace file and validates the checksum for each page. It compares the calculated checksum to the stored checksum in the page and reports mismatches, if any. It can also now rewrite page checksums in the tablespace. It is an...

The MySQL 5.7.2 Milestone Release
As promised, here is the belated post covering the MySQL 5.7.2 Milestone Release, released on September 21, 2013. You can find the full list of changes and bug fixes in the 5.7.2 Release Notes. Enjoy! InnoDB Read-Only Scalability One of the goals of 5.7 is to improve performance for Read-Only (RO)...