MySQL Enterprise Server 5.1 delivers new enterprise features, including:

• New!  Partitioning to improve performance and management of very large database environments
• New!  Row-based Replication for improved replication security
• New!  Event Scheduler to create and schedule jobs that perform various database tasks
• ACID Transactions to build reliable and secure business critical applications
• Stored Procedures to improve developer productivity
• Triggers to enforce complex business rules at the database level
• Views to ensure sensitive information is not compromised
• Information Schema to provide easy access to metadata
• Distributed Transactions (XA) to support complex transactions across multiple databases
• Pluggable Storage Engine Architecture for maximum flexibility
• Archive Storage Engine for historical and audit data
• Federated Storage Engine to create a single logical database from many physical servers
• Emergency Hot Fix Builds

Timely Updates & Service Packs

As a MySQL Enterprise customer, you will automatically receive both monthly rapid updates and quarterly service packs with the latest bug-fixes and security updates. These frequent releases ensure that the most reliable, secure, and up-to-date version of MySQL Enterprise Server is always available to you. The Software Update Service automatically notifies you of new rapid updates and service packs by sending you alerts via email, pager, or SMS.

1. Sun acquires MySQL
2. Keeping Up - Facebook scaling and replication with MySQL
3. What's New in MySQL 5.1
4. MySQL Forge 2.0 released
5. db4free.net now offers MySQL 6.0
6. Open Source Groups Upbeat, Cautious on Sun-MySQL
7. MySQL Enterprise Server 5.0.54a
8. MySQL 5.1 Downloads
9. Sun Microsystems Announces Agreement to Acquire MySQL, Developer of the World's Most Popular Open Source Database
10. MySQL Magazine Scoop
11. The 2008 MySQL Conference & Expo
12. Virgin Mobile Implements MySQL Enterprise
13. MySQL AB & Carahsoft to Host a Federal DBA Day on January 24
14. Enabling Converged Services with MySQL Cluster
15. Live Webinar: MySQL Performance Tuning Best Practices
16. MySQL and Sun: A Letter from Mårten Mickos
17. Sun Microsystems Announces MySQL 5.1
18. Open-source community sees promise in MySQL deal
19. A New MySQL Forge is Born
20. Sun Completes Acquisition of MySQL
21. Interview with Nokia's Olli Toivanen
22. 25 years of Open Source
23. MySQL Jobs
24. Pursing new ventures with MySQL
25. Comsys Selects the MySQL Embedded Server for its Voice Over IP Solutions
26. Testing the new MySQL Forge
27. New Forge: Missing the bug!
28. Falcon Storage Engine Beta Now Available
29. MySQL Server is Open Source, even Backup extensions
30. Why is MySQL more popular than PostgreSQL?
31. New Release of MySQL 5.1.25 Release Candidate
32. Win a Free Ticket to the MySQL Users Conference!
33. MySQL 5.1 Storage Engine Architecture
34. New MySQL forums
35. Try and Buy MySQL on Sun Systems
36. New Release of MySQL 5.1.24 (Release Candidate)
37. Materialized Views in MySQL
38. Web Developer Needed
39. It's official: The future of Sun/MySQL is open...and closed
40. db4free.net again offers latest MySQL 6.0
41. MySQL 5 1 Use Case Competition
42. Donate to help Andrii Nikitin's son Ivan
43. MySQL Live Webinar Introducing MySQL Products
44. Ivan Nikitin: Contributions and Medical Status
45. Live Webinar: MySQL Query Analyzer - Finding and Fixing Problem Queries
46. Ivan Nikitin has arrived in Germany
47. New Community release - MySQL 5.0.67
48. New Release of MySQL 6.0.5
49. New Release of MySQL 5.1.26
50. MySQL Jobs