http://ayende.comAyende @ RahienCopyright (C) Ayende Rahien 2004 - 2021 (c) 202660Ibrahim, You have a very strange definition of broken http://ayende.com/3406/why-i-dont-like-firebird-part-i#comment11http://ayende.com/3406/why-i-dont-like-firebird-part-i#comment11Mon, 21 Jul 2008 06:46:19 GMTIBExpert is the best tool, and if it doesnt work on your machine then change your machine. http://ayende.com/3406/why-i-dont-like-firebird-part-i#comment10http://ayende.com/3406/why-i-dont-like-firebird-part-i#comment10Mon, 21 Jul 2008 05:37:32 GMTIBExpert has free personal version ..-- the best tool for IB http://ayende.com/3406/why-i-dont-like-firebird-part-i#comment9http://ayende.com/3406/why-i-dont-like-firebird-part-i#comment9Sun, 20 Jul 2008 21:21:22 GMTI've been using SQL Manager from EMS for years with Firebird and it works fine. They even have a Lite (Free) version. http://ayende.com/3406/why-i-dont-like-firebird-part-i#comment8http://ayende.com/3406/why-i-dont-like-firebird-part-i#comment8Sat, 12 Jul 2008 05:45:44 GMTFireBird 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... http://ayende.com/3406/why-i-dont-like-firebird-part-i#comment7http://ayende.com/3406/why-i-dont-like-firebird-part-i#comment7Tue, 08 Jul 2008 11:40:28 GMTTooling 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. http://ayende.com/3406/why-i-dont-like-firebird-part-i#comment6http://ayende.com/3406/why-i-dont-like-firebird-part-i#comment6Mon, 07 Jul 2008 11:41:28 GMTYep, the tooling is pretty poor. Have you looked at VistaDB? It has good tooling and now has an Express version available. http://ayende.com/3406/why-i-dont-like-firebird-part-i#comment5http://ayende.com/3406/why-i-dont-like-firebird-part-i#comment5Mon, 07 Jul 2008 08:25:11 GMTFrans, I am talking about the lack of tools in this post, mainly. http://ayende.com/3406/why-i-dont-like-firebird-part-i#comment4http://ayende.com/3406/why-i-dont-like-firebird-part-i#comment4Mon, 07 Jul 2008 07:50:03 GMTI 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. http://ayende.com/3406/why-i-dont-like-firebird-part-i#comment3http://ayende.com/3406/why-i-dont-like-firebird-part-i#comment3Mon, 07 Jul 2008 07:44:21 GMTDoesn't work on my machine http://ayende.com/3406/why-i-dont-like-firebird-part-i#comment2http://ayende.com/3406/why-i-dont-like-firebird-part-i#comment2Mon, 07 Jul 2008 07:25:26 GMTHave you seen FlameRobin? http://www.flamerobin.org/index.php http://ayende.com/3406/why-i-dont-like-firebird-part-i#comment1http://ayende.com/3406/why-i-dont-like-firebird-part-i#comment1Mon, 07 Jul 2008 06:17:28 GMT