MySQL

We just love to make our users’ life a bit easier. This time, we are excited to treat you with a brand new addition to our dbForge for MySQL product line, – dbForge Documenter for MySQL. The tool automatically generates documentation for multiple MySQL and MariaDB databases in the HTML, PDF, and MARKDOWN file formats and allows customizing the generated documentation with help of a rich set of options and settings.

Our team has done its best to make the new MySQL documentation tool fast, productive, simple, and good-looking. Now it’s your turn to try it out! (more…)

After a grand update of dbForge Studio for MySQL, we haven’t forgotten about the rest of the dbForge for MySQL product range. Our developers took maximum care of each and every MySQL tool and revamped them with specific new features and updates. All the tools have been enhanced with the cutting-edge connectivity and compatibility options which means you can work with a greater number of databases and database engines. Also, we have implemented a new activation mechanism to ensure that our users can use the tools with all possible security and reliability. (more…)

”Wow!’, ”Cool!’, “Fantastic!”, “A revelation!” – this was the first reaction of our colleagues when we presented fresh dbForge Studio for MySQL, v7.4 to them. Indeed, our team has done a huge work in to meet our customers’ needs and expectations. In a bid to fulfill this objective, we have enhanced our renowned MySQL GUI tool with the most timely and essential features, improvements and updates. And now, we are eager to unveil all these awesome additions to dbForge Studio for MySQL to you. The list turned out to be quite impressive and long, but believe us, it is worth at least looking through. To put the story short, let’s start!

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A high level abstraction provided by Entity Framework sometimes challenges developers in accessing a full set of features available via native SQL of a particular database server. This article will help you to cope with usage of collation in MySQL to control case sensitivity settings in generated queries.

Collation defines an order through the process of comparing two given character strings and deciding which should come before the other.
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This article elaborates on the HTTP Tunneling connection method and explains how to configure it by means of dbForge Studio for MySQL.

Introducing HTTP Tunneling

HTTP tunneling is a method of connecting to a MySQL Server through HTTP/HTTPS protocol and via the port that is used by a web server. The method may come  in useful when a direct connection to MySQL Server, that utilizes port 3306, is problematic for certain reasons, e.g. it is closed by security reasons, or firewall blocks access from all network protocols, except HTTP. Since port 80, that is used by web server, cannot be blocked, HTTP tunneling seems to be the ultimate technique to solve a range of MySQL connection issues.

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dbForge Studio for MySQL allows you to automate report creation process by using command line utility. There is a simple way to send comparison reports automatically via email.

To accomplish this task we will use the Collaboration Data Objects (CDO), previously known as OLE Messaging or Active Messaging. CDO is an application programming interface included with Microsoft Windows.

Below is the simple BAT file that automatically saves a comparison report in the HTML format on the “D:\\” drive and runs the send.vbs script file.

call “C:\Program Files\Devart\dbForge Studio for MySQL\dbforgemysql.com” /datacompare /compfile:d:\project.dcomp /reportformat:HTML /report:d:\report.html
start send.vbs

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At the moment, dbForge Studio for MySQL allows you to create a connection to Sphinx Search Engine. Due to technical restrictions, a warning message appears in some cases. The reason the message appears is because, there is no possibility to define that the connection happens to  Sphinx SE. We requested the Sphinx SE developers team to fix this problem.

When the warning message appears?

Case 1: When you create a connection to Sphinx Search Engine, the message appears for the first time.

Case 2: The same message appears when you create a new SQL document. It appears only once and doesn’t repeat for other new SQL documents.

Case 3: The message appears when you click a Sphinx SE connection in Database Explorer.

Warning message

In any of these cases, just click OK, and continue your work.

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The current version of dbForge Studio for MySQL does not allow to import the whole Access database at once. Instead, there is an option to migrate separate Access tables in MySQL format.

The article below describes the entire process of converting Microsoft Access tables to MySQL.

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Entity Framework v5 and v6 support spatial data types. They are represented as two DbGeometry and DbGeography data types from System.Data.Entity.dll in .NET Framework 4.5 (Entity Framework 5) or from EntityFramework.dll (Entity Framework 6). We have already supported Entity Framework Spatials for Oracle database (see Using Entity Framework Spatials with Oracle Spatial and SharpMap). In the new versions of our providers we have improved Entity Framework Spatials support for Oracle and added spatials support for MySQL and PostgreSQL.
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Did you know that dbForge Studio for MySQL is a great alternative to MySQL Workbench? In case you have used MySQL Workbench in the past, or consider using it now, you might want to take a closer look at dbForge Studio for MySQL, to make sure you pick wisely the tool that will meet your requirements the best.

Every single year the software industry introduces new DBMSs which allow developers to achieve goals and objectives more efficiently. However, in order to benefit from all the features provided by the modern DBMS, you should define which one is more suitable for team’s needs.

Today we are going to draw a parallel between two similar products, that allow performing numerous tasks in MySQL environment. Both of them are specialized visual database design tools for MySQL databases. These products are MySQL Workbench 5.2.47, and it’s alternative — dbForge Studio for MySQL 6.0. (more…)