Friend of mine, that is still working on xBase (Clipper), asked me to recommend him a good GUI tool for SQL database. At first I didn’t know what he exactly wanted. In fact he wanted a tool to retrive and manipulate data in FireBird DB. After trying few tools I recommended IB_SQL. It’s realy light weighted and intuitive.
Read more on Paweł’s blog
Here is the fibre’s main intro page . Released files are located on sourceforge download page
This article was written about InterBase by Borland in the mid-1990’s. The factual description still applies to Classic and SuperServer in Firebird in 2006, but the implications related to project direction and reliability do not apply to Firebird. The Firebird project fully supports the Classic architecture on all platforms and recommends its use in multi-processor environments.
You can watch the powerpc porting thread on sf.net devel mailing list
UPDATE:firebird started on powerpc (make passed create_db stage so first database was correctly created on that platform)
Please also report broken links to the osswin-users mailinglist, and if you really like this list and want to keep me motivated, then just send me something from my wishlist or my wanted computerparts list 🙂
Cheers,Bart Vandewoestyne
Here is the test configuration and details (database structure)
On the previous post, I talked about Turbo Delphi (Explorer), now I’m gonna talk a little bit about her cousin… Lazarus. 🙂
Read more on the bee.ography blog
[Ed: both can be used with firebird and OOpascal is the main language used with firebird – see previous pool results]
Minimizing the requirements of your application is a good thing.
(Disclaimer: I am a PostgreSQL fan, this is my subjective personal experience)
Had a interesting experience with 3 of these DBMS’es.Needed to write an application that opperates on 7000000 row table.
ED:Here are the “results”
IBAnalyst 2.0 is ready with new features list
