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More and more users upgrade to Windows Server 2016 from old versions, and some of them have noticed that Windows Server 2016 works slower than previous versions, even on the same hardware with the same database.

HQbird 2018: new release of the advanced Firebird distribution

The first version of the first chapter of Firebird Developer Guide is available for preview.

The first 200 pages of the German version of Firebird 2.5 Language Reference are available now.

Firebird Project, IBSurgeon and IBPhoenix are happy to announce Firebird Tour 2017: a series of seminars around the globe, devoted to the performance optimization of Firebird databases. The speakers will be Vlad Khorsun and Dmitry Yemanov (Firebird Project), Dmitry Kuzmenko (IBSurgeon), Alexey Kovyazin (IBSurgeon) and Pavel Cizar (IBPhoenix).

Firebird Developers Day in Brazil took place July 29, 2017. Read report

At July 27 Alexey Kovyazin (IBSurgeon) will be speaking at Firebird Developers Day in Brazil. FDD2017 will take place in Piracicaba, Sao Paulo, Brazil.

IBSurgeon Firebird Encryption Plugin Framework is updated: now it is compatible with Firebird 3.0.2 and higher.

HQbird 2017R2 is a major upgrade of advanced Firebird distributive (versions 2.5 and 3.0) with high-availability, replication, optimization, monitoring and recovery tools.

Detailed list of differences between Firebird and InterBase

FirstAID 5.0 supports Firebird 3.0, InterBase XE7, and big databases (100Gb+).

IBSurgeon has released the complete trial kit for Firebird encryption, which includes fully functional time-limited AES256 encryption plugin and demo application (in Delphi) to demonstrate how to connect to the encrypted database.

IBSurgeon is glad to announce the availability of improved Firebird support subscription plans: now all plans include the cloud backup!

We are glad to announce IBSurgeon HQbird 2017: new version of an advanced distribution of FirebirdSQL with native replication, optimization tools, automatic backups, and monitoring.

HQbird User Guide was just updated, not it contains detailed instructions how to setup asynchronous or synchronous replication on Firebird with HQbird Enterprise.

The first minor release of Firebird 3.0 is available: many bug fixes and several improvements. We recommend updating to Firebird 3.0.1 as soon as possible.

IBSurgeon offers Firebird Encryption Plugin Framework - the ready-to-use skeleton with encryption plugin implementation and integration guidance and implementation support.

The new article is devoted to the interesting feature of InterBase - online dump, which can be used to implement fast backups

This short article presents the 10 steps to find the slowest queries in the production Firebird databases with HQbird PerfMon tool (Trace API).

IBSurgeon is a traditional sponsor and speaker at Firebird Developers Day in Brazil. This year we presented 2 talks: "High-load performance testing: Firebird 2.5, 3.0, 4.0" and "Firebird failover cluster"

All versions of Firebird/InterBase ODS

Firebird Conference 2016 will take place on October 7-8, in Prague, Czech Republic. IBSurgeon is the traditional sponsor and one of the hosts of Firebird Conference 2016: we invite you to meet with us at the major Firebird event of the year, where Firebird professionals from all parts of the world meet, learn and discuss the newest technologies in Firebird SQL area.

A new article from IBSurgeon: 45 Ways To Speed Up Firebird Database.

As far as you know, recently released Firebird 3.0 has a lot of nice features, and the most important of them are the increased performance and the high compatibility with the previous version, so migration is the very attractive idea.

Firebird 3 is available now!

IBSurgeon is proud to present HQbird: advanced distribution of Firebird for enterprises. It is an enhanced, fully compatible with Firebird, feature-rich distribution of FirebirdSQL that provides superior performance, reliability, and instrumentation.

Firebird Language Reference: Beta 1 of English version is available.

We have just published the new (completely new!) version of our presentation "Resolving Firebird Performance problems".

You can often see the following question in Firebird technical support groups: "What is the hardware of choice for the Firebird DBMS?". This topic remains permanently popular because hardware requirements differ by tasks and hardware itself changes with time.

Firebird 2.5.5 was just released. This minor release contains many important bug fixes, so it is highly recommended to upgrade previous 2.5.x to 2.5.5.

Despite the fact that Firebird 3 has the release candidate now, the majority of Firebird users are still running 2.5 release. Dmitry Yemanov, head of Firebird development, has announced that new minor release of 2.5 was tagged in source code repository

Official installer of Firebird 3.0 Release Candudate is available for testing

As you know, Firebird 3.0 RC1 source code was already tagged in Firebird Project repository, but its official installer will be released a bit later. For those who don't want to wait, we have created the unofficial installer of Firebird 3 RC1 - it contains 100% source code of 3.0 Release Candidate 1, just available earlier than the official installer.

Firebird Project and IBSurgeon invite developers and administrators of big Firebird databases to the free seminar devoted to big Firebird databases: optimization, high availability, backups and maintenance.

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

As you may know, in 2005-2006 our company was the publisher of «The InterBase and Firebird Developer Magazine». Here you can read all 4 issues of this magazine.

This year IBSurgeon will be a traditional sponsor of Firebird Developers Day in Brazil, 2015: http://www.firebirddevelopersday.com.br/fdd/2015/index.html, it will take place August 8, 2015, in Piracicaba, Sao Paulo, Brazil. Alexey Kovyazin will speak about HQbird - new Firebird distrubution for enterprises (IBSurgeon), and how to achieve the best inesrt performance in Firebird. Together with Dmitry Yemanov, core developer of Firebird SQL, Alexey will also speak at Firebird Performance master-class (August 7).

New version of Firebird monitoring, backups and anticorruption tool - FBDataGuard 3.3

The Firebird 2015 Tour is devoted to SQL performance optimisation: SQL plans, queries and database statistics, query tuning techniques and understanding how Firebird works within this context.

We are glad to announce general availability of the new IBSurgeon free tool – IBSurgeon Response Checker

Presentations and report from Firebird Conference 2014

FBMonLogger, a tool to analyse Firebird monitoring tables and find slow queries, long running transactions and other performance problems, is released.

Release of new version ( 3.1) of Firebird backup, monitoring and anti-corruption tool

Firebird 2.5 Language Reference in Russian is released

FBDataGuard 3.0 is released. New features include enhanced web-console, support for compressed backups up to 12Gb. improved configuration and several bug fixes.

Firebird SQL Tour "All About Transactions": photos from the event in Moscow, Russia.

Firebird Project is glad to announce Firebird Conference 2014: the most important international event devoted to FirebirdSQL. Firebird Conference 2014 will be a meeting point for all Firebird users and core developers of Firebird. It's the best place to share and receive FirebirdSQL knowledge! IBSurgeon, as a sponsor of Firebird Conference 2014, will present talks about performance optimization and database recovery in Firebird.

New version of FBScanner (3.6.1) is released. FBScanner is an unique tool to trace and audit Firebird (1.0 - 2.5) and InterBase (4.0 - XE3) SQL traffic (connections, transactions, queries), it's very useful for performance optimization and SQLs bug fixing.

November 25. 2013: Firebird "All About Transactions" seminar in Prague. Detailed plan of seminar can be found here. Some photos from this seminar.