— If you're an .NET developer working with Firebird you need to catch up with all the changes that happened during a year. There's a lot of improvements and you might actually benefit from some of these pretty well. Also might be a good recap of some new features in Firebird.

 

 

— How clean and transparent is in outside. I'm really looking for proper SMP support. Also as a provider writer the external stored procedures/triggers/... are really interesting. Although there's probably a lot of work to do (and it's not moving further much).

See you soon in Prague!

 

Roman Somakov, RedSoft

 

—  Red Database is a fork of the great DMBS Firebird. We base of the latest versions and add new features. We are going to talk about our experience of Red Database (Firebird) usage, about our heavy loaded installations as well as about new features like:

Also it's would be interested to see how we organize a development and QA processes.

 

 

— I like great portability of Firebird and good support of SQL standards. It makes it compact, portable and powerful DBMS ready for any purposes. Regarding Firebird 3 my favourite feature are shared cache and java stored procedures.

 

Pavel Cizar, IBPhoenix

 

— IBPhoenix provides information, support and development services to Firebird users for fourteen years, so we've got a lot of experience with wide range of problems that these users encounter. We're creative and always look for new ways how to solve their problems more effectively, and where appropriate we make tools that help us make the job done. In my presentation I'll share my experience with using monitoring tables and trace & audit services to solve various problems. I'll focus equally on what they could be good for and to methods and tools that worked best for me.

 

 

—  Firebird is simple (to use and manage) yet very powerful and flexible engine with great support (drivers, libraries, applications etc.) and vibrant community. It's not good for everything, but works great for most cases. I'll always go with Firebird as my first choice, and look for other solutions only in rare cases when Firebird is not good enough. About Firebird 3, it's hard to pick one favorite feature/improvement as every one of them is important and contributes IMHO equally to make v3 an awesome release.

 

Jonathan Neve, CopyCat

—  Jonathan, why do you think people will be interested most of all in your presentation?

—  I will be giving an overview of our database replication solutions and presenting the new features developed over the last year or so, including support for iOS and Android devices using Delphi's Firemonkey platform. I plan to show a real-world application we built this year for synchronizing SQLite databases on Android devices with a central Firebird database. I will also give an overview of our new database backup / mirroring solution called LiveMirror. The talk will assume familiarity with the Delphi environment and language, but it should be of interest to anyone considering implementing database replication or in need of a solution for securing their data through continuous replication (for failover or load-balancing purposes).
 

 

—  I love Firebird's simplicity and ease of use. I think the project has found a great balance in that it is quite feature-completeness while still avoiding unnecessary bloat and remaining dead-simple to administer. Simple to install, reliable, and more than enough features for most uses. I do appreciate the new features that are being added, but I think the focus on avoiding bloat in the process is a good thing. As for new features of Firebird 3, I'm really looking forward to windowing functions, which I expect to use a lot! I frequently find myself writing fairly complex queries in order to extract data that could be gotten easier and faster with windowing functions. The other features sound great too, but that's probably the one that matters most to me!