Top Benefits of MySQL Enterprise Subscription

MySQL Enterprise subscriptions are an easier way to purchase software and services - they include everything you need to manage, maintain, update and service your MySQL deployments for a single, all-inclusive price.

Subscriptions are available on a 1, 2, or 3 year subscription term and prices are protected for the term of your contract. Plus, we offer extended savings through multi-year and pre-pay subscription discounts.

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MySQL Enterprise subscriptions include the following benefits:

1. MySQL Enterprise Server
   The MySQL Enterprise Server is the most reliable, secure and up-to-date version of MySQL in source and binary format.
2. Extensive Reliability Testing
   The MySQL Enterprise is designed and tested to support enterprise workloads that consist of thousands of concurrent connections, thousands of transactions per second, and extreme degrees of database uptime.
3. Updates and Upgrades with New Features
   You receive the newest versions of MySQL Enterprise Server released during your active subscription term.
4. Predicable Releases with Bug Fixes and Updates
   Predictable and scheduled service packs ensure that a new, fully up-to-date version of the MySQL Enterprise Server is always available with the latest updates and bug fixes. Customers of MySQL Enterprise receive Monthly Rapid Updates & Quarterly Service Packs
5. Proactive Software and Security Update Alerts
   Custom notifications keep you informed of critical technical and security updates of the MySQL Enterprise Server. See historic release schedule.
6. MySQL Enterprise Monitor
   Continuously monitors your MySQL servers and alerts you to potential problems before they impact your system. It includes series of expert best practice enforcement Advisors and over 100 Advisor Rules that automatically examine a MySQL server's configuration and recommend ways to improve database security, replication, performance, memory usage and schema design.
7. Technical Support
   MySQL Technical Support ensures you receive the priority service you need for a quick resolution of technical problems as they occur. MySQL Enterprise is available in 4 tiers allowing you to choose the service level the best meets your needs. MySQL Technical Support is staffed by MySQL Support Engineers who are seasoned MySQL developers, not entry-level support personnel found in most software companies. Additional benefits of MySQL Enterprise Gold and Platinum include hot fixes and bug escalation privileges
8. Consultative Support (Gold & Platinum)
   MySQL Enterprise Gold and Platinum include Consultative Support where MySQL Support Engineers advise you on how to properly design and tune your MySQL servers, schema, queries, and replication set-up to maximize performance and availability.
9. Online KnowledgeBase
   The MySQL Knowledge Base provides a comprehensive library of thousands of technical articles resolving difficult problems on popular database topics such as performance, replication, and migration. It also has the latest how-to information on MySQL 5.0 features such as stored procedures, triggers and views.
10. Extended Lifecycle Support
    MySQL Silver, Gold and Platinum include Extended Lifecycle Support which provides you to with technical support for a MySQL Server version for a total of 5 years from its original release date.
11. Predictable Budgeting
    A MySQL Enterprise Subscription helps make your technology budgeting easy, pain-free and predictable with annual payments. That means improved cash forecasting; and you may be able to include subscription fees in project estimates and billing.

MySQL Enterprise is the recommended solution for organizations that want their deployments of MySQL to be reliable, secure and up-to-date. MySQL Enterprise is backed by MySQL Support Engineers, and a proactive set of Monitoring and Advisory Services will make DBA's and System Administrators more productive so they can focus their time on the tasks that matter most.