Firebird and Unicode databases

The first encounter with unicode databases and collations on Firebird may be confusing, as it was for me and it may take some time to grasp the concepts and settings. This article describes the principles and catches and gives the examples how to set up a UTF-8 database in Firebird SQL server 2.5, how to setup ICU libraries and how to use national collations (eg. czech).

FB TraceManager V3.5.0 has been released

FBTM_V3_48x48 Upscene Productions is excited to officially release FB TraceManager V3.5.0!


Full Firebird 3 Alpha 2 support across the entire product (Trace API, header page monitoring, database statistics, monitoring tables), increased trace data fetch throughput and usability enhancements are some key facts about V3.5.0.

More information is available here:
http://upscene.com/displaynews.php?item=20140225

Or also directly in the V3.5 what’s new section of the online product documentation:
http://www.upscene.com/documentation/fbtm3/index.html?whats_new_in_v3_5.htm

More information on the product is available in the FB TraceManager section on our website, including an edition comparison sheet, webcasts etc.:
http://www.upscene.com/go/?go=fbtm

Thanks for your continued support.

IBSurgeon FirstAID 3.7 is released

IBSurgeon is glad to announce the new version of Firebird and InterBase database recovery tool: FirstAID 3.7.

FirstAID 3.7 introduces new approaches in the database recovery and many new features:

  • export data from a corrupted database directly to the empty database with the same structure
  • borrow metadata from an old good database copy (or FBDataGuard repository) to recover extremely corrupted databases
  • faster analysis and recovery of very big databases
  • free preview of data in the corrupted databases: what you see is what you [will] get
  • 2 levels of recovery: fast in-place fix with FirstAID Direct or thorough export with FirstAID Extractor
  • Support of Firebird 1.0-2.5 and InterBase 4.x, 6.x, 7.1, 7.5, 2007, 2009, XE, XE3
  • Improved licensing

We recommend upgrading to FirstAID 3.7 for all users of FirstAID 1.0-2.x (users of 3.x have already received upgrades).

Upgrade options are listed here: http://ib-aid.com/products/developer/upgrades

  • FirstAID for 5 databases: EUR 99/USD129
  • FirstAID for 50 databases: EUR 299/USD399

Links and downloads

Please feel free to ask any questions: support@ib-aid.com

Sample of FirstAID free data preview:

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