Firebird Project, IBSurgeon and IBPhoenix are happy to announce Firebird Tour 2017: a series of seminars with Firebird developers, devoted to the performance optimization of Firebird databases. The speakers will be Vlad Khorsun and Dmitry Yemanov (Firebird Project), Dmitry Kuzmenko (IBSurgeon), Alexey Kovyazin (IBSurgeon) and Pavel Cizar (IBPhoenix).

The topics of the seminar:

1. Tuning hardware and operation systems (Windows and Linux) for the best Firebird performance.
2. Firebird Internal performance details: how it works inside Firebird
3. Tuning techniques for SQL queries and advanced diagnostics of performance.
4. Advanced SQL performance in Firebird 3.0

Seminars will take place in Prague (Czech Republic) at October 3, Bad Sassendorf (Germany) at October 5, and in Moscow (Russia) at October 19.

Early Bird subscription is open! Seats are limited! Book here!

The 14th Firebird Developers Day will take place in Piracicaba-SP, Brazil, July 29, 2017.
There are lots of interesting talks, including GIS, Full-Text Search, case studies, performance optimization and migration to Firebird 3, etc.
The registration is open at www.FirebirdDevelopersDay.com.br. ​

O 14º Firebird Developers Day acontecerá em Piracicaba-SP, no dia 29 de Julho. As inscrições estão abertas, e podem ser feitas em www.FirebirdDevelopersDay.com.br. Quanto mais cedo se inscrever, mais barata é a inscrição, portanto, inscreva-se agora, garanta sua vaga e economize! Os tópicos esse ano vão desde GIS, Full Text Search, Estudos de Caso, até Otimização de Performance e Migração para o Firebird, etc.

The Firebird JDBC team is happy to announce the release of Jaybird 3.0.1.

Jaybird 3.0.1 contains the following fixes and changes:

• Fixed: FBTraceManager.loadConfigurationFromFile strips line breaks (JDBC-493)
• Fixed: FBDatabaseMetaData.getTables does not list tables where rdb$relation_type is null (JDBC-494)
• Improvement: Character sets are now initialized lazily (JDBC-495)
• Fixed: Memory leak caused by retaining blob handles until connection close (JDBC-497)

See the Jaybird 3.0.1 release notes for more information. Jaybird 3.0.1 can be downloaded from the JDBC Driver page.