Cool. Thanks for the good advice. Il go get that one also ! That's 3 -
should be able to get the one I like out of that lot.

OK Guess that's me up and running on FB1.5. About 2 hours work including
downloading Client utils over a modem. Not bad at all. Must say I am really
impressed with the connection speed and ease of getting it all to work.

Now for the Delphi and C# Connectivity side of things.

Got any more good tips for me there ? How about ADO.NET ? Wishful thinking I
suppose.

T

-----Original Message-----
From: Helen Borrie [mailto:helebor@...]
Sent: Saturday, May 22, 2004 5:57 PM
To: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [firebird-support] Client Tools


At 04:54 PM 22/05/2004 +1200, you wrote:

>OK. I downloaded a couple of commercial packages to evaluate. Il purchase
>one or the other.
>
>What do you sugest as some Freeware that I can distrubute on site ?
>Something for me to use when I am onsite, or remoting in to do basic

updates

>and management. no analysis neccesary.

I use IB_SQL unconditionally for all of your following requirements. I
keep a copy on each Windows server I administer - NP at all to use with
PCA, VNC, etc.

>Requirements =
>
>Run and save SQL

Yes. You have two ways to do it: DSQL (for interactive metadata updates
and your executable statements) and Cursor (for dataset queries). Also a
Query Forms tool that you can use for either, esp. useful for those queries
(parameterised or not) that you want to run regularly.

>Run and save Scripts

Yes. And edit, search, them, etc.

>Manage users

Yes -- add, modify (as long as you are SYSDBA, of course).

>Browse Data

Very spiffy browser, shows data, metadata, dependencies, constraints,
triggers, etc., with option to view same for the RDB$ tables. You can
insert, update and delete in the browser, pick off ready-made field lists
for pasting into queries, etc., etc. Most valuable tool in this utility
set: the SQL Monitor and profiler, complete with savable buffer.

Totally free.

/hb





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