Entity Framework Core 2.0 provider for Firebird now in beta
Jiří Činčura announced that Entity Framework Core 2.0 provider for Firebird is now in beta stage.
Category: Tools & Products releases
Announcements of new Firebird related products, or new releases.
Lazarus Release 1.8 (with FPC 3.0.4)
The Lazarus team is glad to announce the release of Lazarus 1.8.
The release was built with FPC 3.0.4.
Synchronize Firebird SQL to Amazon MySQL (Aurora version)
Powerful new feature for Two-Way synchronization between Firebird SQL (Windows) and AWS Aurora-MySQL (a fully managed database with no servers).
This enables developers to extend on-premises systems to the cloud, be able to use MySQL-Aurora for web transactions with the added benefit to return subsets of data to Firebird.
ANN: Firebird PHP Generator Lite released
SQL Maestro Group announces the release of Firebird PHP Generator Lite, a free yet powerful Windows frontend to generate data-driven web applications for your Firebird database without programming experience.
Most of software features can be seen in action in the Live Demo. There are also versions for other DBMS (MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Oracle, etc). Read full press-release.
HQbird 2018: New version of advanced FirebirdSQL distribution
We are glad to release the new major version of advanced Firebird (2.5 and 3.0) distribution: HQbird 2018. The key new features are the following:
- Online initialization of asynchronous replication (in the Enterprise edition). Now it is possible to initialize and re-initialize database replicas with zero downtime of the master server.
- Automatic performance monitoring (in all editions), with the performance reports which show the slowest and the most frequent SQL queries, and with the advanced monitoring of long-running active transactions.
- Pool of connections for external statements (for version 2.5) which greatly increases the performance of Execute On External statements
- Pool of prepared statements (for version 3.0) which greatly improves the performance in case of frequent parametrized queries
- New version of Firebird SQL Studio, now with the support of encrypted databases
Please refer to HQbird User Guide for more details!
For those, who downloaded trials of previous HQbird versions: we have reset all previous trial registrations to the end of December 2017.
All registered users of HQbird 2015, HQbird 2016 and HQbird 2017 will receive the free upgrade to HQbird 2018!
For Windows users – it is possible to install HQbird 2018 over the existing installation and keep the configuration.
HQbird 2018 comes in 3 editions:
- Standard ($399): automatic backups, automatic maintenance, and automatic performance monitoring
- Professional ($599): Standard + Recovery tools (FirstAID Tech Support) + SQL Studio.
- Enterprise ($799): Professional+ replication (asynchronous and synchronous)
More details here: https://ib-aid.com/en/hqbird-features
Please feel free to ask any questions through email support@ib-aid.com
ADO.NET provider 5.12.0.0 for Firebird is ready
Database .NET 23.5 and dbMigration .NET 6.8 released
Database .NET 23.5 and dbMigration .NET 6.8 have been released.
(Full support for Firebird 1.5~4.0+ Embedded and Server)
For more information please visit the following links:
http://fishcodelib.com/Database.htm (
Change Log 2017/11/15)
http://fishcodelib.com/DBMigration.htm (Change Log 2017/11/15)
New IBProvider v3.47 and “LCPI ADO.NET Provider” for .NET Standard 2.0
Hello Everyone!
We have a great piece of news for all users of IBProvider v3 — we have rewritten the latest subsystem inherited from the second version of the provider.
In other words, we have finally fully updated and improved the entire IBProvider v3!
In addition to updating the IBProvider, we released new assemblies of our ADO.NET provider for .NET Standard 2.0 and refreshed the “LCPI OLE DB Services”.
Full news text: http://www.ibprovider.com/eng/news/n_171114.html
Upscene releases Database Workbench 5.3.4
Upscene Productions is proud to announce the availability of the next release of the popular multi-DBMS development tool:
” Database Workbench 5.3.4″
This release includes a custom report writer, increased PostgreSQL support and a renewed stored routine debugger including full support for Firebird 3 Stored Functions and Packages.
Stored routine debugger Hopper, version 2.0 released
Upscene Productions is proud to announce version 2 of “Hopper”, a stored
routine debugger for InterBase, Firebird and MySQL.
This version includes support for Firebird 3 packages and stored functions,
MySQL diagnostic-statements, binary data in variables and much more.
For more information, check the Hopper page at our website.
About Hopper
Hopper is a stored routine debugging tool for MySQL, Firebird and InterBase. If you use
stored procedures on these database systems, Hopper will be a great tool for debugging
these routines.
About Upscene Productions
Based in The Netherlands, Europe, this small but dedicated company has been providing
database developers with useful tools for over 15 years. Slowly expanding the product portfolio
and gaining recognition amongst InterBase and Firebird database developers, they now offer
tools for a whole range of database systems, including Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server.