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HQbird 2018 R3 is released

IBSurgeon is happy to announce the new release of HQbird – advanced Firebird distribution for enterprises, featuring native (high-performance and transactions friendly) master-slave replication, advanced performance monitoring, automated backups, and maintenance. HQbird is 100% compatible with Firebird, it does not require backup/restore to move between HQbird and community Firebird.

This release includes many new features and improvements:

• Advanced support of DDL during the replication
• Automatic configuration:
  • operative and archive logs are created and registered automatically in replication configuration and Cloud Backup jobs
  • Windows installer has the option to install a replica with pre-configured database instance.
  • Improved automatic database re-initialization
• The Pool of Execute On External connections now is available in Firebird 3.0 (as it was in 2.5) which included to HQbird – greatly increases stability and speed of Execute On External statements. The pool can be reviewed and controlled by SQL commands
• New context variable indicating is it master or replica RDB$GET_CONTEXT('SYSTEM', 'REPLICA')
• New monitoring options
  • Performance Summary to see cumulative reads/writes/fetches and SQL Ping to monitor database response
  • Detailed information about all temporary files in Firebird
• Indices statistics job now recalculates all indices in AUTO mode (recommended to set it to run once per week)
• Automatic upgrade now is also in Linux installer, as it was in Windows - if you already had HQbird installed, Linux installer will update it correctly without reinstallation
• Fixes in the interface: icons, sorting order of graphs, etc