A Little Noise

July 9, 2009

Workbench loses its crutches

Filed under: MySQL — snoyes @ 2:31 pm

When MySQL Workbench was still in alpha and beta stages, some dark murmurs in the community suggested that the OSS (free) version was crippleware, part of an evil plot to make you pony up $99 if you wanted to get any real benefit. Closed source and profits and bears, oh my!

The new GA release of Workbench gets some of those “crippled” features back. In particular, the OSS version now allows connections to a live server, so you can reverse and forward engineer without having to go through a dump file. I also have it on good authority that the OSS version will be able to print diagrams directly, instead of you having to export an image.

If you see any merit in a visual diagram of your database, but you wrote off Workbench based on earlier experiences, give it another try now.

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