The old adage that time is money does not give any hints about buying more time. A MySQL Enterprise subscription does allow you to purchase time. Your technical staff has to do more with less time than ever before and operational delays add up extremely quickly.  Having the right tools when things go critical means staff can do what they need to do, when they need to do it.

So how does MySQL Enterprise Edition buy you more time?

When things inevitably go wrong, searching for free answers to problems on web sites with many dubious or flat out wrong solutions is a waste of precious time.  Informational websites like are fine sources of general information for researching technical issues but not when mission critical services are degraded or down.  An online recommendation to do what very large Enterprise Company does may not make sense for your company if you are not …