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

Doesn't work on my machine

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.

Frans,

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

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

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.

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...

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

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

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

Ibrahim,

You have a very strange definition of broken