IBSurgeon FirstAID 4: new version of FirebirdSQL recovery tool

IBFirstAID 4.0IBSurgeon is glad to announce version 4 of FirstAID: an ultimate recovery tool for Firebird and InterBase databases.

FirstAID 4.0 introduces the new level of recovery rate – up to 95% of corrupted databases can be fixed. Also, as usual, FirstAID 4.0 allows free and full preview of data in the corrupted database. And, FirstAID highlights problematic tables with corrupted metadata and suggest when to use external metadata mechanism to achieve better results.

We recommend users of previous versions (1.x-2.x) upgrade to FirstAID 4, and offer special discounted upgrade to FirstAID for 100 databases for the price of 50 databases upgrade:

Get FirstAID 100 databases for the price of 50 now!

More details and download of FirstAID 4.0: http://ib-aid.com/en/ibsurgeon-firstaid/

Database Workbench 5.1.6 released

Upscene Productions is proud to announce the availability of the next release of the popular multi-DBMS development tool:

” Database Workbench 5.1.6 “

This version is the next big release after version 5 and includes new features, enhancements and fixes.

The change logs for version 5.1.x is available.

“There is so much new in Database Workbench 5, I don’t know where to start”, says Martijn Tonies, founder of Upscene Productions. “This release adds code editor features, has diagramming improvements, comes in multiple editions, is fully HiDPI aware and offers tunneling for MySQL and MariaDB connections. It all was a lot of work, but it was worth it!”

“We worked closely with out customer and implemented many of their requests and for new users, we offer multiple editions to suit their development needs. From design to productivity, there’s new features and improvements in almost everything!”

New features in version 5 include:

  • Support for the latest versions of database engines including SQL Azure and MariaDB support
  • New and improved user interface
  • Code editor features like block staples, code folding, object linking and dynamic highlighting
  • “Diagram Navigator” for easier diagramming navigation
  • MySQL/MariaDB tunneling support
  • Firebird 3 Package Editor
  • New tools, including a Data Compare tool
  • Basic and Pro Edition to suit your needs
  • and much more…

For more information, see What’s new in Database Workbench 5?

Database Workbench supports MySQL, MariaDB, Firebird, Oracle, MS SQL Server, SQL Azure, SQL Anywhere, NexusDB and InterBase, comes in multiple editions and is licensed based on selectable modules.

It includes tools for database design, database maintenance, testing, data transfer, data import & export, database migration, database compare and numerous other tools.

About Database Workbench
Database Workbench is a database developer tool, over 10 years in the making and
is being used by thousands of developers across the globe who have come to rely on it
every day. From database design, implementation, to testing and debugging, it will aid you
in your daily database work.

About Upscene Productions
Based in The Netherlands, Europe, this small but dedicated company has been providing
database developers with useful tools for over 12 years. Slowly expanding the product portfolio
and gaining recognition amongst InterBase and Firebird database developers, they now offer
tools for a whole range of database systems, including Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server.

Node Firebird driver node-firebird 0.7.0 is released with bugfixes and improvements

New release for node-firebird driver with one bug fix and a few improvements :

Fix a problem with sequential read (#78)

Improvement : Reading of fetched packet

Experimental : Add params to connection (cacheQuery and maxCachedQuery).
when cacheQuery is set to true each query is cached for faster re-use during the connection like in Jaybird.
after the query is cached these steps are saved :

  1. Query allocation
  2. Compilation and Plan
  3. Describe

Firebird Big Databases: Seminar in Moscow

Firebird Project and IBSurgeon invite Firebird administrators and developers to «Firebird Big Databases» seminar (in Russian). Seminar will take place in Moscow, Russia, October 21, 2015.
Main speakers at seminar are Dmitry Yemanov, lead FirebirdSQL developer, Dmitry Kuzmenko, IBSurgeon and Alexey Kovyazin, IBSurgeon.

The seminar will cover topics of Firebird performance optimization and maintenance of big Firebird databases (>500Gb).

Seminars in Europe are planned, but not yet announced, please stay tuned.

More details and registration is at http://ibase.ru/firebirdtour2016.html (in Russian only).

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