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Firebird related news
Most popular relational databases used from within Java Virtual Machines– 2016 edition
Here is the article that exposes the data extracted from the applications monitored by Plumbr monitoring solution. The data below originates from 618 different companies and 3,172 unique Java Virtual Machines

As someone commented on reddit :
“Unfortunately it seems to include testing code in it’s analysis. I doubt HyperSQL and H2 are used that extensively in production but H2 is more or less the de facto integration test DB in Java land since it can mimic other dialects so well.”
Jaybird 3.0.0-beta-1 is now available for testing
Jaybird 3.0.0-beta-1 has been published for testing. We would really appreciate if you could start testing your applications with this version and provide feedback on stability and behavior, but also on the release notes.
IBReplicator V5.0.1 is available for download
IBReplicator V5.0.1 is available for download. For more details please see the release notes.
Release of IBProvider v3.34 – «Native OLE DB Provider for Firebird v3»
Hello everyone!
We have two pieces of news for IBProvider and Firebird users. Both are good.
- The release of «IBProvider Professional Edition» v3.34 with its own Firebird v3 client is already available for download.
- We upgraded the «Free IBProvider» and added a subsystem to it with its own Firebird client.
Now all IBProvider editions can work directly with all released Firebird versions from v0.9 to v3.0!
We hope this release will bring new ideas to your work.
Full news text: http://www.ibprovider.com/eng/news/n_161111.html
Yii2-Firebird 0.9.0 released
ADO.NET provider 5.6.0.0 for Firebird is ready
Sneak peek of «Native OLE DB Provider for Firebird v3»
Hello everyone!
We invite everyone to test the next version of IBProvider, which allows to work directly with Firebird v3 through INET (TCP/IP) connection.
The current assembly v3.34.0.22607 has passed functional and load testing. Improvements and changes are not planned. The release will be available within a month.
Read full text of news: http://www.ibprovider.com/eng/news/n_161030.html
Firebird Conference 2016 papers
Here is a list of papers published on ibphoenix Documentation area from
From Firebird Conference 2016 (Prague)
- Firebird Today – Goals and Perspectives (.pdf) (107.31K)
by Dimitry Yemanov - Firebird and Disk IO (.pdf) (113.29K)
by Dimitry Yemanov - How to implement the full text search using only what PSQL offers (.pdf) (114.27K)
by Jiri Cincura - More on – How to implement the full text search using only what PSQL offers
by Jiri Cincura - Upgrading from Firebird 1.5 to 2.5 and beyond (.pdf) (161.31K)
by Pavel Cisar - Firebird development process — Past, present and future (.pdf) (283.60K)
by Pavel Cisar - What’s new in .NET provider and overview of new features (.pdf) (124.17K)
by Jiri Cincura - Implementing a safe authorisation infrastructure for Firebird (.pdf) (127.49K)
by Alex Peshkov - Encrypting Firebird databases (.pdf) (142.92K)
by Alex Peshkov - Introduction to CloudaIDE — Web Framework requiring only database programming skills (.pdf) (5.26M)
by Wieslaw Poszewiecki, CloudaIDE - Firebird performance comparisons (.pdf) (342.94K)
by Paul Reeves - Managing Firebird with Ansible (.pdf) (262.27K)
by Philippe Makowski - SQL best practices (.pdf) (205.20K)
by Philippe Makowski - New features of Firebird ported from RedDatabase (.pdf) (1.27M)
by Roman Simakov, RedSoft - HA cluster based on RedDatabase engine-level replication (.pdf) (917.62K)
by Dmitry Starodubov, RedSoft - Firebird nbackup evolution (.pdf) (161.93K)
by Vlad Horsun - Statement-level read consistency in read committed transactions (.pdf) (215.10K)
by Vlad Horsun
Database .NET 19.8 and dbMigration .NET 4.0 released!
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Database .NET 19.8 is an innovative, powerful and intuitive multiple database management tool. You can browse/grant objects, design tables, edit rows, run queries, generate scripts, analyze/monitor SQL and import/export/migrate/sync data with a consistent interface. (Full support for Firebird 1.5~3.0+) |
- New features and improvements from 19.6 to 19.8 (2016/10/25)
- Updated to FirebirdSql.Data.FirebirdClient.dll 5.5.0.0
- Added Execution Plan for Firebird 3 or later (Exclusive Features) (FB3)
- Added support for Firebird arrays (Special Features) (FB)
- Ability to add custom delimited file extensions
- Improved New Firebird connection profile (FB)
- Improved AutoComplete and IntelliSense
- Improved Selected Text to Query Builder
- Improved Results to Text
- …and more
For more information please visit http://fishcodelib.com/Database.htm
Free, All-In-One, Portable, Single executable file and Multi-language.
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dbMigration .NET 4.0 is a simple, easy and intuitive multiple database migration and data synchronization tool, With it you can easily migrate schema and data between different databases without complicated procedures. |
Supported databases: Firebird 1.5~3.0+, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, SQL Azure, LocalDB, MySQL, Oracle, IBM DB2, Informix, HP Vertica, NuoDB, Teradata, Sybase ASE, SQLite, SQLCe, Access, dBase, FoxPro, Excel, ODBC, OLEDB, Text…etc.
- New features and improvements from 3.8 to 4.0 (2016/10/25)
- Updated to FirebirdSql.Data.FirebirdClient.dll 5.5.0.0
- Added support for Firebird arrays (Special Features) (FB)
- Ability to add custom delimited file extensions
- Improved Data Synchronization
- Improved New Firebird connection profile (FB)
- Improved Custom Mapping Types
- …and more
For more information please visit http://fishcodelib.com/DBMigration.htm
Free, All-In-One, Portable, and Single executable file.


