The following slideshow shows how to create an EER from an existing database. Using this section, you can create a new Entity Relationship models using various components available, creating EER from an existing database, from a SQL Script and open an existing one. You can manage existing connections using MySQL Workbench.Ĭlick on Manage Connections using the link and then from the windows as shows above, you can create a new connection, delete an existing connection, create a clone of an existing connection and change parameters like name, method, username, port, password, default schema etc. With MySQL Workbench you can select a connection, a schema and table under that to edit table data.Ĭlick on Edit SQL Scripts to edit an existing SQL script. Once the connection is created, you may use that connection to enter SQL Editor to do SQL Development tasks like creating/modifying/deleting modify database and tables, running SQL queries etc. The following slideshow shows you how to create a new connection using MySQL Workbench. You may see that there are three sections - SQL Development, Data Modelling, and Server Administration. Pictorial presentation of when you open MySQL Workbench msi file from the MySQL download page, run it and follow the instructions.Īfter installing it successfully, when you start, you get a window like following. On Windows, if you are installing MySQL Community Server 5.6, MySQL Workbench is installed in the installation process of the server itself. MySQL Workbench version installed at the time of writing this tutorial is 5.2.40. To install MySQL Workbench on Linux (we used Ubuntu), you may run the following command from your terminal.

This tutorial discusses how to perform basic MySQL Administration tasks using MySQL Workbench. You may use this for Server Administration, for creating Entity Relationship Diagrams and for SQL Development (run queries etc). MySQL Workbench is GUI based tool to work with MySQL Servers.

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