For our users of MySQL Community Edition, MySQL offers a variety of ways to get help from MySQL AB or from other MySQL developers.
The Developer Zone provides a variety of free resources, including:
Subscribe to the public MySQL mailing lists to learn from other MySQL developers on specific issues.
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Discuss MySQL and related topics on our web-based forums with other people from the MySQL user and developer community.
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Discuss MySQL questions live in the popular community #mysql IRC channel on Freenode.
This is where you can report a bug, search all of the bugs that have been reported, and view statistics about those bugs.
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With MySQL support you can get answers to all your MySQL related questions from the MySQL support team. If you encounter urgent problems with MySQL, you will get help as soon as you need it.
More information at http://www.mysql.com/support/
Sun Microsystems, Inc. provides a full range of consulting services, to our commercial users as well as to our GPL users.
More information at http://www.mysql.com/consulting/
MySQL offers you the most comprehensive set of MySQL training courses that enables you to build database.
MySQL Certification is an advanced, high-quality certification process that proves you have skill in maintaining a MySQL database. By getting your company to certify you, you can prove that you are ready to do more advanced, responsible tasks in the company.
More information at http://www.mysql.com/training/