MySQL Enterprise is a subscription-based service produced by Oracle Corporation

Oracle Corporation

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 and targeted toward the commercial

Business

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 market. Oracle's official support, training and certification focus on MySQL Enterprise.

MySQL Enterprise contains

• MySQL Enterprise Server software, a distribution of the MySQL
  MySQL
  MySQL officially, but also commonly "My Sequel") is a relational database management system that runs as a server providing multi-user access to a number of databases. It is named after developer Michael Widenius' daughter, My...
  
   Server
• MySQL Enterprise Monitor
• MySQL Enterprise Backup
• MySQL Workbench
  MySQL Workbench
  MySQL Workbench is a visual database design tool that integrates SQL development, administration, database design, creation and maintenance into a single integrated development environment for the MySQL database system...
  
  Standard Edition
• Production Support

New versions of MySQL Enterprise Server are released monthly as Rapid Updates (MRUs), and quarterly as Service Packs (QSPs).

Relationship to free or community versions

MySQL Enterprise Server 5.5, the software component of the MySQL Enterprise subscription offering, is a subset of the MySQL Community Server 5.5.

External links

• MySQL Enterprise Server 5.5
• MySQL Network Monitoring and Advisory Services
• MySQL Production Support