Official release date for first MySQL Workbench alpha set

[Michael G. Zinner]

Hi,

the official release date for the first MySQL Workbench alpha has now been set to Monday, 12th of September. The inital releases will be for Windows and OS X.

Find a list of feature below. This will be update if needed.

MySQL Workbench Alpha release
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Features include:

+ Working with schema objects (Tables, Views, Routine-Containers) and documentation objects (Layers, Notes, no images yet) on the canvas
+ Separation of database catalog and model
+ Multible model views

+ Relationships between tables based on foreign keys
+ Popup Editors

+ Reverse engineering of existing schemata
+ SQL script export


Features not in first alpha but coming later:

- Database Synchronization
- Inline editors
- Import of DBDesigner4 and ERwin models
- In database storage / workgroup management
- Structured datatype emulation
- Reverse engineering from SQL create scripts
- Reverse engineering of all data sources that are offered in the Migration Toolkit
- Support for MaxDB models

Most of the DBDesigner4 functionality should be covered already in the first alpha. A lot more features are coming.

Stay tuned,
Mike

Michael Zinner, Team Lead, Developer Tools
MySQL AB, www.mysql.com

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Edited 4 time(s). Last edit at 09/12/2005 09:10PM by Michael G. Zinner.