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Which Freeware "GUI tool" for "FireBird RDBMS" closestly resembles "MS SQL Server 2000 Management Studio"?

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I love IBExpert. I know, it's not freeware. Just wanted to mentioned it.

You can go with one Java based tool like Oracle's SQLDeveloper, Eclipse's SQLExplorer or SQUIRREL-SQL. Of course, for all these tools, you will need Firebird's JDBC driver. And a little bit of Java knowledge to setup your connections.

Pablo Santa Cruz
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The best freeware GUI tool for FireBird is this: EMS SQL Manager for InterBase/Firebird

They have a freeware version which you can download from here: Download Freeware version of EMS SQL Manager

Praveen Angyan
+4  A: 

EMS, Database Workbench and IBExpert have lite version

My favourite is IBExpert

Hugues Van Landeghem
+1  A: 

SQL Maestro Group offers AnySQL Maestro (a freeware tool for all DBMS accessible via OLE DB/ODBC). They also have Firebird Maestro, but it is a shareware.

I've been using Firebird Maestro for more than a year now. So far it's my favorite.
dthrasher
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I use IBOConsole (it has done the job for me so far)

Sam
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I like http://www.sql-workbench.net

Java based, cross-platform and free.

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