Firebird News

Jiří Činčura announced that Entity Framework Core 2.0 provider for Firebird is now in beta stage.

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:

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. Pool of connections for external statements (for version 2.5) which greatly increases the performance of Execute On External statements
4. Pool of prepared statements (for version 3.0) which greatly improves the performance in case of frequent parametrized queries
5. 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