--- In Firebird-general@yahoogroups.com, "HKlemt" wrote:

> --- In Firebird-general@yahoogroups.com, Svein Erling Tysvær wrote:
> > You've heard about the two best options - IB Expert and Database
> > Workbench. IB Expert has the longest history of the two and my
> > leader at work is happy using it. Myself, I first tried
> > Database Workbench and am extremely happy with that (it
> > doesn't take many minutes to become an expert). A third
> > colleague tried IB Expert, but found it to
> > be lacking (at least she didn't find how to do something)
> > in one area (I don't remember which)
>
> did she had a look at the documentation (press f1 or just open
> http://www.ibexpert.info/documentation ), there are a lot of
> articles about almost every function of ibexpert.

Well, Holger,
I don't know. I just know that it was easier to find in Database
Workbench when consulting colleagues that used either of the products
- or so I thought. I actually thought Aage was occationally using IB
Expert, it is not a fair comparison if he never uses it whereas I
occationally use Database Workbench. I think the actual problem was
solved in a couple of minutes by trying to navigate through Database
Workbench without pressing F1 even though it was something none of us
had tried to do with Firebird before. I don't doubt that IB Expert is
a great tool for people that know it or actually are used to make use
of the help function, I'm just impressed by Database Workbench having
(more or less) eliminated the need for using help for occational users
like me! And both you and Martijn has to admit that the competitor
does have a good product, don't you?

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