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Why I don't like Firebird: Part I

I mentioned before that my main objection to this DB is its utter lack of tooling. I mean, even SQLite has some tools. For Firebird, there seem to be nothing that works on my machine.

I needed to debug something there, and this was the easiest solution.

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Print | posted on Monday, July 07, 2008 12:32 AM

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# re: Why I don't like Firebird: Part I 7/7/2008 9:17 AM Jelle Hissink

Have you seen FlameRobin? http://www.flamerobin.org/index.php

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# re: Why I don't like Firebird: Part I 7/7/2008 10:25 AM Ayende Rahien

Doesn't work on my machine

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# re: Why I don't like Firebird: Part I 7/7/2008 10:44 AM Frans Bouma

I never had problems with firebird, other than their stupid sort issues. Your text crap might be related to the dialect you've to select ? I otherwise don't see what your code has to do with firebird.

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# re: Why I don't like Firebird: Part I 7/7/2008 10:50 AM Ayende Rahien

Frans,
I am talking about the lack of tools in this post, mainly.

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# re: Why I don't like Firebird: Part I 7/7/2008 11:25 AM Sean Kearon

Yep, the tooling is pretty poor. Have you looked at VistaDB? It has good tooling and now has an Express version available.

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# re: Why I don't like Firebird: Part I 7/7/2008 2:41 PM Frans Bouma

Tooling is indeed not that great, though there are some firebird supporting query tools out there, some commercial, some open source. Though indeed, it would have been better if the firebird team would provide one themselves, similar to the postgresql tool.

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# re: Why I don't like Firebird: Part I 7/8/2008 2:40 PM Filip Kinsky

FireBird has few command line tools, but I understand you don't like to fight the command line :)

I use FB quite frequently and really like it - I use free IBQuery (http://www.mitec.cz/ibq.html) or free personal version of IBExpert (http://ibexpert.biz/ibe/index.php?n=Main.PersonalEdition). Or you could try the full commercial version of IBExpert - it's really powerfull tool...

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# re: Why I don't like Firebird: Part I 7/12/2008 8:45 AM Hadi Hariri

I've been using SQL Manager from EMS for years with Firebird and it works fine. They even have a Lite (Free) version.

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# re: Why I don't like Firebird: Part I 7/21/2008 12:21 AM bombersa

IBExpert has free personal version ..-- the best tool for IB

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# re: Why I don't like Firebird: Part I 7/21/2008 8:37 AM ibrahim dursun

IBExpert is the best tool, and if it doesnt work on your machine then change your machine.

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# re: Why I don't like Firebird: Part I 7/21/2008 9:46 AM Ayende Rahien

Ibrahim,
You have a very strange definition of broken

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