The MySQL Workbench GUI is cross-platform, open source, and incredibly easy to use.

If you plan to do database development with Java and MySQL, the first thing you’ll need to do is configure a database schema. Technically speaking, the first thing to do before you configure a schema ...

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.