Bug #40648 Inbound syncronization does nothing
Submitted: 11 Nov 2008 19:28 Modified: 8 Feb 2010 14:57
Reporter: Kevin Peno Email Updates:
Status: Closed Impact on me:
None 
Category:MySQL Workbench Severity:S3 (Non-critical)
Version:5.0.26 OS:Windows (Vista 64bit)
Assigned to: Alexander Musienko CPU Architecture:Any
Tags: CHECKED, syncronization, workbench

[11 Nov 2008 19:28] Kevin Peno
Description:
When choosing to syncronize between the design and live database, if you double click the direction and change it pointing inbound (towards the design), no data is syncronized.

How to repeat:
Choose the "database" menu. Select syncronize. Connect to live database. On the SQL Diff Tree page, double click one of the syncro point until the arrow points towards the design schema. Choose next to see no queries in the sync script. Choose Next to see that nothing changed.

Suggested fix:
Add the functionality to allow bidirectional syncronization, or allow user to specify the direction before the alteration script is generated and applied.
[13 Nov 2008 17:41] MySQL Verification Team
Thank you for the bug report.
[7 Apr 2009 1:24] Eli Garcia
Just to chip in, this issue is causing me a lot of hassle too.  I may work alter a database from outside workbench, and then find that I have to reverse engineer the whole thing in order to update a simple field change or something.
[8 Feb 2010 11:44] Johannes Taxacher
fixed in repository for 5.1
[8 Feb 2010 14:57] Tony Bedford
An entry has been added to the 5.1.19 changelog:

When synchronizing with a live database, if the direction of synchronization was changed to inbound, then the script generated indicated that no inbound changes would be made.