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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.

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.

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

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.

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).

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 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.

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

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.

Firebird Project is glad to announce Firebird 2013 Tour – series of seminars around the world, devoted to Firebird, with members of Firebird Project as speakers.The first seminar will be in Siegburg (Germany), November 22, 2013.

July 20, 2013. Firebird Developers Day 2013 took place in Piracicaba, Sao Paulo, Brazil. It's a major Firebird conference and meeting point for Brazil Firebird users. IBSurgeon is a traditional sponsor of FDD.

IBSurgeon invites all customers to participate in Firebird Conference 2012, the event of the year for all Firebird users and developers.

July 21, 2012 - IBSurgeon was the Gold sponsor of Firebird Developers Day in Piracicaba, Sao Paulo, Brazil.

We are pleased to inform you that FBScanner 3 User Guide is now available in Portuguese too.

FBDataGuard was just updated to the version 2.7.

IBSurgeon DBInfo is designed to visualize internal structure's statistics, so administrators or developers can view how much data, index, blob or other kind of information your Firebird or InterBase database stores.

IBSurgeon invites all Firebird users to attend Firebird Conference 2011, which will take place in Luxembourg, Nov 25-26.