Category: General news

Monitor Firebird SQL Database 2.1+ using any operating system.
The monitor was developed in Java (Jaybird) and NetBeans IDE.

If interested in contributing, please feel free to request to be a collaborator on github page

Features:

Monitor connections;
Monitor transactions;
Monitor slow SQL statements;
Cancel connections;
Cancel SQL statements;
Manage registration databases;
Manage recorded logs.

A big thanks to Hajime Nakagami for his pull request for the Firebird 3 wire protocol (version 13) for Jaybird.
https://github.com/FirebirdSQL/jaybird/pull/3

Firebird reached 14th place on DB-Engines Ranking of Relational DBMS for July.

Or 4th place among relational open-source RDBMS. (Dimitry Yemanov noticed )

http://db-engines.com/en/ranking/relational+dbms

ps:Previous place was 15th.

From the Bug Tracker via Paul Beach’s Blog:

Vlad Khorsun commented on CORE-1999:

gbak now has a new command-line switch

-ST(ATISTICS) TDRW show statistics:
T time from start
D delta time
R page reads
W page writes

Article By Helen Borrie :
One of the PSQL treasures coming with Firebird 3 is the ability to write scalar functions in procedural SQL.

Here are the instructions to configure systemd for Firebird 2.5.4 Classic

tarball distribution package from firebirdsql.org

JRuby 9.0.0.0 is Released.

ActiveRecord Firebird adapter for JDBC and JRuby should work without issues.

Firebird connector for Yii2 framework is tagged in git and released with autoincrement support