From 1bad43a4aa3f17d18176dcc05dfddf1fc6c2ef99 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Raymond Feng <raymond@strongloop.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2014 16:12:46 -0700
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Add ping()

---
 lib/mysql.js | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lib/mysql.js b/lib/mysql.js
index 319f3d7..9f57472 100644
--- a/lib/mysql.js
+++ b/lib/mysql.js
@@ -1203,5 +1203,9 @@ MySQL.prototype.disconnect = function () {
   }
 };
 
+MySQL.prototype.ping = function(cb) {
+  this.query('SELECT 1 AS result', cb);
+};
+
 require('./discovery')(MySQL);
 

From 934ec805718e924b944293b542ef9012867b2538 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Raymond Feng <raymond@strongloop.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2014 16:35:00 -0700
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Bump version

---
 package.json | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 0692413..03ac8ed 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "loopback-connector-mysql",
-  "version": "1.4.3",
+  "version": "1.4.4",
   "description": "MySQL connector for loopback-datasource-juggler",
   "main": "index.js",
   "scripts": {