what's the best Firebird IDE?

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what's the best Firebird IDE?

Simple question. I'm considering Firebird and SQLite for an upcoming project. SQLite has SQLite Administrator, which is pretty good but gets +1M because it has autocomplete. But Firebird supports FKs, so I'm more comfortable with it. I'm leaning toward Firebird right now.

What is your favorite Firebird IDE and why?

Edit: Personally, I'll be gravitating toward the free ones because I'm not making much on this project. But I'll leave the question as is.

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I have used the free version of EMS SQL Manager. It is a great IDE with all the features I ever need and compares with something like Management Studio for SQL Server. Link

Craig 2009-01-29 00:35:04

I spent about 20 mins looking at this one, stopped when it couldn't create a database: "can't find procedure isc_dsql_execute_immediate fbclient.dll". Not saying it's bad, but if it encounters a critical issue that soon, I'm gonna move on to the next one.

jcollum 2009-02-01 18:54:50

That error message isn't exact, it's what i typed in to google when I hit the fault. Didn't find anything on google about it. Tried the other dll and got the same fault.

jcollum 2009-02-01 18:55:53

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I can suggest you Firebird Maestro. It's not free but what you get for the price of a license is a very good product, especially because you can perform most of your tasks visually.

Stefano Driussi 2009-01-29 00:36:39

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I like IBExpert for Firebird (or Interbase). They have a free personal edition.

Ray 2009-01-29 01:08:37

The only one that's complete at this time and worked. But I didn't test it thoroughly because I decided against FB.

jcollum 2009-02-04 22:34:42

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Aside from an IDE for Firebird, you may want to take a look at Sinática Monitor for Firebird.
It's great for finding bottlenecks.

Douglas Tosi 2009-01-29 09:48:04

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I would not want to enter it into a contest for best Firebird IDE (yet), but you could look into FlameRobin for a free multi-platform administration program for Firebird. It has auto completion, starts as fast as no other GUI tool I know of, and the price should be right for you.

mghie 2009-01-29 12:09:14

FlameRobin ins't better than IBExpert.

O Engenheiro 2010-06-11 17:44:27

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FlameRobin is simple, easy to use, and has a small footprint. Additionally, it's free.

Cyprus106 2009-02-11 16:20:48

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Databaseworkbench - does everthing - SQL Developer's heaven

2009-02-14 06:30:32

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Test all this !

IBEasy http://www.marc-grange.net/telecharger.htm *
IBExpert http://www.ibexpert.com *
Database Workbench http://www.upscene.com *
FireFace http://www.fireface.eu
Firebird Maestro http://www.sqlmaestro.com/products/firebird/maestro/
EMS SQL Mananger http://sqlmanager.net/products/ibfb/manager *
BlazeTop http://www.devrace.com/en/blazetop/
Firebird Development Studio http://www.sqlly.com/
FlameRobin http://www.flamerobin.org/ *
Kevora IDE http://kevora.sourceforge.net/
IBWebAdmin http://www.ibwebadmin.net/ *
RazorSQL http://www.razorsql.com/
SQuirel SQL http://squirrel-sql.sourceforge.net/ *
OD Web ISQL http://www.e-naxos.com/dnlManager.aspx?GROUP=6 *

For me the best is IBExpert and after Database Workbench because they have stored procedure debugger

(*) means free or have free version (personal...)

Hugues Van Landeghem 2009-04-06 18:47:09

wow these ar new to me fireface and kevora , i will add them to firebirdnews.org

2009-04-24 14:28:31

you're new, so i'll give you a tip: if you can answer the question, put it in an answer; if you just have a comment, put it in the comments section. You'll get downvotes for answers that aren't.

jcollum 2009-04-24 15:33:10

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