MySQL Utilities. This release marks a milestone of concentrated effort to
expand the use of utilities in more diverse installations through improved
robustness, error handling, and quality.
Many Improvements
There are number such enhancements in this release. In this post we will
highlight a few of the more significant improvements.
- (new utility) MySQL .frm Reader (mysqlfrm) - read .frm files and generate CREATE statements with or without a server connection.
- (revised) improved documentation including a section on example administrative tasks - see http://dev.mysql.com/doc/workbench/en/mysql-utilities.html
- MySQL Utilities is packaged for .msi, .rpl, .deb platforms and source .tar/.zip
- You can run mysqlfailover as a daemon on POSIX systems
- Improved accuracy redundant index checking algorithm for mysqlindexcheck
- Improved accuracy for comparing databases with mysqldbcompare
- The --exclude option for mysqldbcopy and mysqldbexport now accept database patterns
- Improved quoting of database, table, index names in SQL generation
- External script return code checking for mysqlfailover, mysqlrpladmin
- Slave thread state included in verbosity output of mysqlrplshow
- The mysqldbimport utility can now read raw CSV files with headers
of these improvements have been filtering into the 1.2.X release over the last
year, this release marks the first GA in that time frame.
How Can I Download MySQL Utilities?
You can download MySQL Utilities 1.3.4 from
http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/tools/utilities/ using one of the pre-built
installation repositories including a source download. MySQL Utilities is also
available on Lauchpad as a source download at
https://code.launchpad.net/mysql-utilities.
