Testing. To test SQLYog and run it through its paces, I tested it against an employees sample database running locally on a development laptop with Windows 8.1 Professional and MySQL version 5.6 ...

Open MySQL Workbench and connect to your database server. From the database home screen (Figure A), right-click a blank spot under the SCHEMAS pane and select Create Schema. Figure A.

The MySQL workbench executes the required SQL statement under the covers, and the schema is listed in the tool. With the schema created, you can now provide any JDBC drivers, Hibernate config or JPA ...

Regardless, MySQL is not signaling that its future is proprietary with Workbench Standard Edition. It's just demonstrating that while its core database will be open source, the services around ...

MySQL Router to help with database scaling. The MySQL Documentation. Some pre-populated database tables to play with. After the database is installed, a good smoke test is to open the MySQL Workbench.