Category: General news

We are glad to announce the new version of our FBScanner tool. In version 2.5 we have significantly increased feature set, usability and performance of FBScanner. Customers with more than 100 concurrent connections use FBScanner for daily administration of production systems and during QA/development stages. FBScanner is the only tool which can intercept and log all Firebird traffic, and show it in suitable format.

Download FBScanner 2.5 trial now.

As part of our development we continue to work at free Community Edition version of FBScanner, which is useful for debugging and testing purposes. Every Firebird developer who ever had questions like “What queries and transactions are performing right now in Firebird?” and “How do I know who is doing what.. in my Firebird?” should appreciate the variety of FBScanner Community Edition abilities.

Download FBScanner 2.5 CE now.

Please refer to feature matrix for detailed overview of FBScanner abilities.

Do not hesitate to contact IBSurgeon with any ideas, questions and problems you have. Write to support@ib-aid.com.

Here is the text from this version of Buffer #145

It’s time to nominate Firebird for CCA 2009, SourceForge’s Community Choice Awards, says Firebird News. Firebird is nominated for Best Project, Best Tool or Utility for Developers, and Best Project for the Enterprise.

On Free Database: The Relational Databases Blog appears an embedded Firebird database overview. It begins, “I was looking for a small and powerful database in order to fulfill the requirements of my last project. Because the database will be running locally I took the decision to use an embedded database. After a few searches over the Internet and some embedded database comparison reviews, I found Firebird which is actually a powerful but unknown (yet) relational database system.”

On Compas Pascal, Lars Dybdahl makes some observations on the real-life latency of a Firebird server.

I just evaluated a switch of a Firebird server from a virtual VMware server to a physical server, and the results were stunning. I measured simple select SQL statements to a very small table, and on the virtual server, more than 90% of the queries finished in more than 20ms, and the median was between 20-30ms normally, and sometimes up to 80%. The 99% percentile was out of scale.

Continue reading in Compas Pascal blog.

Kits for Windows were all replaced today to include some components that were missing. The new kits have the infix “-1” or “_1” after the build number, e.g. “Firebird-2.5.0.23247_1_Win32_Beta1.exe”.

The aquisition was funded by Firebird Foundation. Firebird 2.1.3 will include cloud database features merged from NimbusDB, that was being developed by Jim Starkey.

In the other side, Jim will not join the project, and plans to spend the money buying  a bigger boat and sail around the world for the next 5 years.